Taking a look at Zlango

Zlango is pretty neat. It’s an entirely ‘new’ language based on using icons, thus:

(That’s me writing ‘I say smstextnews rocks’ — alas there’s no icon for smstextnews yet…!)

I’m going to take a closer look at Zlango shortly — one million users worldwide can’t be wrong — meantime here’s the facts, ma’am:

– Zlango Mobile Application – offers mobile phones and handheld devices a feature-rich messaging experience, with the ability to compose in Zlango, ordinary text, or a mixture of the two. It has all the usual characteristics of a messaging application and is compatible with over 300 different devices

– Zlango Plugins – integrates Zlango with any browser-based messaging service such as Yahoo mail, AOL mail, MSN Hotmail and Gmail. Anyone downloading the extension is able to compose and send Zlango messages

– Zlango IM Extension – Zlango has integrated with ICQ to allow all users to compose, send and receive ZMS’s. Additional integrations to major IM providers are under way

– Zlango Social Site Applications – enables members of social sites such as Facebook to communicate via Zlango icons

– Zlango Website – enables visitors to create and send messages as well as publish them on the site or externally. The site offers Zlango e-cards and merchandise