Palringo nominated for Webby Award

Mobile social networking app Palringo has been nominated for the 2009 ‘Best Use of GPS or Location Technology’ Webby Award.

Martin Rosinski, Palringo founder and CTO, said being nominated for a Webby demonstrates that Palringo is at the ‘leading edge’ of functionality in a messaging service.

Palringo – available for all handsets under two years old – offers a service that’s rapidly becoming boringly familiar: the ability to integrate social networking contacts into a single application.

AIM, GTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber, and MSN messenger contacts can all be contacted over Palringo.

Palringo does, however, have two unique selling points: first, the ability to send ‘walkie talkie’ style voice messages to contacts; second, the ability to display your location to contacts – hence its nomination for a Webby.

Of course, this function is only useful if your friends also have a GPS handset, and have downloaded Palringo.