I know we are trying to make tech sound cute and fuzzy, but could we please get some cool sounding names, like Quake, Rapture or Doom for a media sharing site?? Next up, Zingku. GREAT NAME. Because people can "Zing" media to each other, get it? Or to their "ku's". EEeeeesh.
And Google just bought 'em.
Zingku, a "mobile social network", could be an interesting GooMobility asset, and fits tit-for-tat against Nokia's Twango (acquisition) and MOSH (developer built) "mobile sharing community".
Both MOSH and Zingku claim as a differentiators that they were "designed from the mobile phone, outward", rather than being services ported from web to mobile (e.g., facebook mobile), though to be honest, I'm not sure users will catch that nuance.
Per Google Operating System, Zingku's self-reported features include:
* Store & fetch mobile photos and txt reminders with alarms on your companion mobile web site. [neat!]
* Share mobile photos and posts with friends and friends-of-friends with txt msg'ing, instant messenger, & web
* Gather a big crowd with txt messaging, IM, and email, all at once!
* Take an instant poll among friends, all with txt messaging. "Hey what should we do ? 1. Movie 2. Dan's party"
* Fetch postings from any blog or any syndicated feed (RSS, Atom) to your mobile phone via txt message.
Rumors cast Zingku as a dovetail to the recent Google GrandCentral acquisition, for a neat, easily indexable, ad-servable fit.
Google looks to be covering all the requisite bases here for a pretty formidable array of mobile services.
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