Zingku.com - Mobile Messaging Gets Supercharged

Zingku"s a new mobile service in private beta, which offers supercharged text and picture messaging through your cell phone. Zingku integrates with the web allowing users to fetch and store their photos and text reminders with alarms on a companion website.

Friends can share photos and posts with eachother and with friends of friends. Group messaging allows users to send texts, IM"s and email simultaneously, to better coordinate events and get togethers. There are also polls for decidint what to do, etc. And finally there"s Flyer, mobile codes that others retrieve by texting a magic code, and there"s Mashup, whereby you can fetch postings from an RSS feed or blog simply by texting. The service is free to use, although it"d be wise to invest in an unlimited data plan as well a texting bundle with your carrier. Also, Zingku"s only available in the States.