Comments on: Zlango Update: BenchMark and Accel Invest $12 Million

By: Zlango Launches Web Play

Zlango Launches Web Play — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:00:48 +0000

[...] we heard from Zlango the company had announced a $12 million in funding from Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners. Today Zlango is announcing its first major [...]

By: Zlango — Me Talk Zlango One Day?

Zlango — Me Talk Zlango One Day? — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:11:38 +0000

[...] out the icons that translate into this message – it is kind of funny. The real virtue of Zlango lies in the creation of a universal [...]

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By: Zlango Talk

Zlango Talk — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:49:28 +0000

Much Important Good News Much Important…

Click on the image to see Zlango’s Much Important announcement:…

By: RB

RB — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:26:08 +0000

stupidest idea i’ve seen in 10 years. benchmark must be really desperate to invest its billions on crap like this.
who is this intended for, the 1.2B chinese who can’t speak english as it is?
rb.

By: Vikas Sah

Vikas Sah — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:39:55 +0000

Thanks Mike for letting us know about the funding news. I also covered them in my blog here:
http://www.tech...-communication/

By: nell

nell — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:05:07 +0000

Perhaps they are ripping off Neil Stephenson’s mediaglyphics from The Diamond Age? http://www.tech...nt.asp?Bnum=214

By: Ori Lahav

Ori Lahav — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:04:07 +0000

well, if it is a good investment? I think YES!!!
Zlango will make tons of money and will be a popular product. same as American idol.
If I was a VC will I invest? absolutely NO!!!
This is one of products that are built to pull $$$ out of board teenagers parent CC. Sorry but I compare it to gambling and other applications I don’t want to name here.
I did it in my blog at :
http://olahav.t...n_the_flav.html

Ori

By: Roy T.

Roy T. — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:22:26 +0000

There is way too much with VC’s. Benchmark this this is important and profitable? Its like monkeys giving smaller monkeys more poop to fling

By: Tony Chen

Tony Chen — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:41:30 +0000

Funny! These Israeli’s! :O

By: carmen

carmen — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:51:17 +0000

so this is what $12 million icons look like. call me crazy but i like AAPL’s $73.16B icons, well.. about 6,098.3 times better..

By: LLE

LLE — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:43:05 +0000

Everyone dissing this – quit being so uptight. It looks like a fun and interesting idea for teens and kids. The press release is brilliant. People have forgotten how to have fun, that’s why most people can’t come up with a brilliant idea to save their life.

“OMG, what’s the business model?! where’s the revenue stream?!”

Open your mind, take off your suit and tie and relax a while.

By: Panamajack

Panamajack — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:37:50 +0000

This is indeed akin to a SMS version of Esperanto (which, we should remember, never really took off!). Still, the young demographic they’re targetting increasingly have IM contacts stretching around the world, and this might be able to cut through all the highly localized slang that Roman SMS texting supports (e.g. Hong Kong’s Chinglish SMS / pinyin chat).

Also, SMS/IMs abiltiy to encode messages from folks like parents and other authority figures is highly attractive to secretive pre-teens wishing to particpate in the next flashmob type event.

By: Basicity

Basicity — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:25:28 +0000

Cool idea but it’ll be a challenge to standardize this! What’s stopping others from developing different sets of icons for the same word, sentence, etc.

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:07:02 +0000

That is certainly one of the most creative and fun press releases I’ve ever seen. Nice work!!!! I also love it!

By: mcsteen

mcsteen — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:00:22 +0000

please tell me they are coming out with porn version

By: DavidEzra

DavidEzra — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:18:55 +0000

Cool, my kids will be learning hieroglyphics instead of their ABC’s when they get to first grade!

By: Yigal Ben Efraim

Yigal Ben Efraim — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:02:11 +0000

http://www.abbreviations.com … so you won’t be confused with any acronym, abbreviation or emoticon again…

By: Vince

Vince — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:46:36 +0000

I have a feeling it will take longer to scroll through all the pictures each time to find the ones you want to construct a sentence that would probably take 20 seconds to write out on a Blackberry, trio, or standard cell using T9.

Are they planning on mixing emoticons with regular text?

By: MZ

MZ — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:25:51 +0000

By: Jermaine

Jermaine — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:11:59 +0000

It’s definitely a risky investment. There is a certain “jamba” potential, make it a trend among kids and milk the cow (or the poor kids).
The investment would be too risky for me though:
- kids change their minds every 2 years. What is hot today is totally out tomorrow. And when I say 2 years, we all know that the “life rythm” is getting faster and faster. The next generation of kids will probably like something complete different. A real tough demgraphic…
- I cant imagine this will be a hit for any other demographic. its funny but its not really appealing. Just look at the comments.