Zlango - Post TechCrunch Post

The post-TechCrunch post [excuse the pun] tremors are still being felt here at Zlango-land. Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch post from June 28, caused a tidal wave of comments, posts and lots of Zlango talk in many tongues.

MobileCrunch posted a piece called “Is Zlango the Universal Translator?” and is apparently reading our minds judging by their suggestion:

“The other thing that I think could push them over the top would be to allow anyone to install the Zlangulator tool anywhere they wish. Make it a widget that could be installed in blogs, on web pages, on the desktop - and then enable instant messaging with Zlango too."

The ZoliBlog has a nice Zlango evolution prophecy in his post named: HieroZlango? Zlanglyphs? :-)

“Zlango, a cute icon-based SMS ZMS language. Nice, who knows what the outcome will be:

• It will not take off, since to really use it, the receiving end needs to have it on their phone, too.
• Because of the above, it will spread virally
• Since it's so cute, it will spread among kids first, and the language separation will be final: we can give up any hope of understanding the 10-year olds ever again.”

Genova-based Italian blogger MezaMondo said [something like…]

"I read on TechCrunch of the more interesting experiments of the last eons on human communication. Now you will think that I am exaggerating, and in effects perhaps perhaps... The much beautiful and interesting mental attitude … An other billion of possible applications comes me in mind already, if standard became one."

Trevor Livingston [in his thesideproject.org blog] called his Zlango post: “Picto-Chattish”.

An interesting angle:

"Icons would strip the color out of language. But considering the terse use of language for mobile messaging, this is a development that could catch on very quickly; particularly once people develop the proper mnemonic skills for rapid concept exchange. I’d also like to see what geographic and cultural semantics might develop; not to mention the semantic rifts that may occur between various social groupings."

The Great Dance Weblog took Zlango to another cultural level with: “Universal Dance Movement Vocabulary”

"Maybe not the best expressed thought in the world, but it did get me thinking about a universal dance vocabulary. Say instead of a two-dimensional icon-based visual language, you were asked to create a 3D video-based language library that anybody could use as an alternative to written words? The goal would be to covey any idea, thought or action to others who may or may not speak the same language as you. Would it be possible to create this universal dance vocabulary? Do certain movements cut across cultural borders and express universal emotions and reactions? Or is dance tied too much to the culture and society in which it is created? And if dance is culturally-based, how would different societies express common emotions and reactions through movement? "

The PAXALLES blog went for: “Will Zlango Help Cross Cultural Communications Or Be A  Visual Tower of Babel In Time?"

“How Zlango would evolve if users' tools could be used to do so - and if this would end up being a visual Tower of Babel in time - and if there would remain a standard sort of dictionary repository is another question. But it seems interesting and a way - like music - for ideas to be communicated in a more universal language.”

The Mobile Herald's post:

"Zlango - Image SMS Language" used a sentence that we hear many times from mobile execs:

“You know, there are certain things I see and just think “yeah, the kids will love this, but I can’t ever see myself using it”. Zlango is one of those things…. So yeah, while I don’t think I’d ever use it, I imagine my 14 year old self would have found this to be pretty damn cool.”

German web.XpunktNull.de blog adequately titled the Zlango poste: ZMS = SMS 2.0?

Organic’s 3 Minds On Digital Marketing simply titled its post: “I Heart Zlango”

"The brilliance of the application is that it allows two people who only speak English and German respectively to communicate without barriers. Using only a few icons you can create a complex sentence much faster than it would take you to type out an SMS message."

qwerky is a notebook of the weirdest new webapp names. They said:

“Zlango, unfortunately, is not a web application, but way cooler. It’s a new format of mobile communication, “ZMS” they dub it, in the form of icons (choose from over two hundred).

Sure, you see an eye, or a clock, or a fly. But it’s the same thing with hieroglyphics, kanji, or emoticons: each squiggle’s got a dozen connotations that depend on the context, the location in a phrase or sentence or story. It’s not just about toggling the “translate” button to help you decipher it and see how awkward the words stand side by side; it’s also about listening to your interpretation of how the message has been put together.

We made the top 100 [actually, the top 60] in MoMB

The Museum of Modern Betas lists the hottest betas in the webosphere, as measured by the number of bookmarks at del.icio.us.

And to close the loop; in The Next Web Conference in The Netherlands, Mike Arrington [from TechCrunch... see way, way above] listed his top 10 hottest start-ups [as listed in the com.municate.com blog]:

Mike Arrington's Top ten list

"...whenever web 2.0 guru (or as he calls it: techcrunch editor) Michael Arrington talks about his top ten list of hottest start ups we listen.

This is Mike's today list (because tomorrow can be completely different) on the next web conference:

• Allpeers  > private p2p, firefox extension, disruptive, praugue
• Bebo  > myspace challenger >
• Facebook > online dictoionary more pageview than google
• Last fm > music social network but he likes Pandora better
• Netvibes > rocketship> homepage widgets
• Riya >photo share facial recognition
• Wikio > combination of digg technorati> google
• Youtube > Videosharing
• Zlango !! > icon based sms new language. viral! > new world language? > i really like this one
• Digg > top start up > new york times & wired magazine will be freaked      >

Whew... what a week!

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