Google Buys Zingku - Mobile Social Network

Google’s reach into the mobile space has been strengthened with the new acquisition of Zingku. Zingku is a mobile social network which gives its users the ability to send and receive text and picture messages to a trusted group of friends.

On a mobile phone, Zingku uses the traditional form of text messaging. On the web, Zingku utilizes your browser and instant messenger. In layman’s words, Zingku helps users connect with their friends and spread the word through Mobile, Web or IM. Here’s a list of features available on Zingku:

• Store & fetch mobile photos and txt reminders with alarms on your companion mobile web site.
• Share mobile photos and posts with friends and friends-of-friends with txt msg’ing, instant messenger, & web.
• Gather a big crowd & their friends 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”
• Your own mobile cards that people fetch by txt’ing a magic code. Make as many as you want & link them together.
• Fetch postings from any blog or any syndicated feed (RSS, Atom) to your mobile phone via txt message.

The price of the acquisition has not been disclosed yet. Zingku’s technology may open up the doors for lots of new features in Google’s existing services. What would you do with Zingku, if you were Google? My answer – Google Alerts through SMS. Share your answers through comments.

[Via: Google Operating System]