Comments on: Zlango Update: BenchMark and Accel Invest $12 Million http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/ Startup and Technology News Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:24:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Zlango Launches Web Play http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1647038 Zlango Launches Web Play Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:00:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1647038 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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? http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1611736 Zlango — Me Talk Zlango One Day? Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:11:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1611736 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...]

]]> By: êàðòî÷íûå ýðîòè÷åñêèå èãðû ñêà÷àòü http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1452851 êàðòî÷íûå ýðîòè÷åñêèå èãðû ñêà÷àòü Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:42:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1452851 <strong> êàðòî÷íûå ýðîòè÷åñêèå èãðû ñêà÷àòü...</strong> êàðòî÷íûå ýðîòè÷åñêèå èãðû ñêà÷àòü... êàðòî÷íûå ýðîòè÷åñêèå èãðû ñêà÷àòü…

êàðòî÷íûå ýðîòè÷åñêèå èãðû ñêà÷àòü…

]]> By: ïñèõîëîãèÿ çîíäè http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1446210 ïñèõîëîãèÿ çîíäè Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:51:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1446210 <strong>ïñèõîëîãèÿ çîíäè...</strong> ïñèõîëîãèÿ çîíäè... ïñèõîëîãèÿ çîíäè…

ïñèõîëîãèÿ çîíäè…

]]> By: çíàêîìñòâà 12 15ëåò http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1436579 çíàêîìñòâà 12 15ëåò Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:14:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1436579 <strong>çíàêîìñòâà 12 15ëåò...</strong> çíàêîìñòâà 12 15ëåò... çíàêîìñòâà 12 15ëåò…

çíàêîìñòâà 12 15ëåò…

]]> By: ïðîõîæäåíèå èãðû ÷¸ðíûé îàçèñ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1384953 ïðîõîæäåíèå èãðû ÷¸ðíûé îàçèñ Sat, 19 May 2007 13:09:47 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1384953 <strong>ñêà÷àòü èãðó òàíü÷èêè...</strong> ñêà÷àòü èãðó gravity defield... ñêà÷àòü èãðó òàíü÷èêè…

ñêà÷àòü èãðó gravity defield…

]]> By: çàðàáîòàëî èãðà http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1333741 çàðàáîòàëî èãðà Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:34:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1333741 <strong>çàðàáîòàëî èãðà...</strong> çàðàáîòàëî èãðà... çàðàáîòàëî èãðà…

çàðàáîòàëî èãðà…

]]> By: Zlango Talk http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1161095 Zlango Talk Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:49:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-1161095 <strong>Much Important Good News Much Important...</strong> Click on the image to see Zlango's Much Important announcement:... Much Important Good News Much Important…

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

]]> By: RB http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-948628 RB Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:26:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-948628 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. 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 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-938241 Vikas Sah Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:39:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-938241 Thanks Mike for letting us know about the funding news. I also covered them in my blog here: http://www.technacular.com/2007/02/13/zlango-icon-language-for-fun-communication/ Thanks Mike for letting us know about the funding news. I also covered them in my blog here:
http://www.technacular.com/200.....unication/

]]> By: nell http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-936878 nell Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:05:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-936878 Perhaps they are ripping off Neil Stephenson's mediaglyphics from The Diamond Age? http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=214 Perhaps they are ripping off Neil Stephenson’s mediaglyphics from The Diamond Age? http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=214

]]> By: Ori Lahav http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-936181 Ori Lahav Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:04:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-936181 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 $$$ out of board teenagers parent CC. Sorry but I compare it to gambling and other applications I don't want to name here. I did it in my blog at : http://olahav.typepad.com/weblog_files/2006/10/return_the_flav.html Ori well, if it is a good investment? I think YES!!!
Zlango will make tons of money and will be a popular product. same as American idol.
If I was a VC will I invest? absolutely NO!!!
This is one of products that are built to pull $$$ 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.typepad.com/webl....._flav.html

Ori

]]> By: Roy T. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-935597 Roy T. Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:22:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-935597 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 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 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-934788 Tony Chen Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:41:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-934788 Funny! These Israeli's! :O Funny! These Israeli’s! :O

]]> By: carmen http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-934349 carmen Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:51:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-934349 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.. 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 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-933170 LLE Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:43:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-933170 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. 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 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-933134 Panamajack Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:37:50 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-933134 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. 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 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-933006 Basicity Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:25:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-933006 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. 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 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-932850 Tamar Weinberg Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:07:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-932850 That is certainly one of the most creative and fun press releases I've ever seen. Nice work!!!! I also love it! That is certainly one of the most creative and fun press releases I’ve ever seen. Nice work!!!! I also love it!

]]> By: mcsteen http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-932790 mcsteen Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:00:22 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-932790 please tell me they are coming out with porn version :) please tell me they are coming out with porn version :)

]]> By: DavidEzra http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-932656 DavidEzra Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:18:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-932656 Cool, my kids will be learning hieroglyphics instead of their ABC's when they get to first grade! Cool, my kids will be learning hieroglyphics instead of their ABC’s when they get to first grade!

]]> By: Yigal Ben Efraim http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-932559 Yigal Ben Efraim Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:02:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-932559 http://www.abbreviations.com ... so you won't be confused with any acronym, abbreviation or emoticon again... ;-) http://www.abbreviations.com … so you won’t be confused with any acronym, abbreviation or emoticon again… ;-)

]]> By: Vince http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-931941 Vince Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:46:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-931941 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? 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 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-931816 MZ Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:25:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-931816 ]]> By: Jermaine http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-931405 Jermaine Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:11:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/11/zlango-update-benchmark-and-accel-invest-12-million/#comment-931405 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. 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.

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