Zyb to launch the social phonebook.
The contacts in your mobile phone are THE social network and with a number of companies attempting to gain access to this it was only a matter of time before back-up kings Zyb made a play for this.
The ZYB Phonebook will, for example, enable you to:
* see the live physical location of your friends – if they want to share it with you!
* see their availability for a call including the time zone they are in if it’s a different time zone to yours – so you don’t wake them up in New York
* share your calendar with people – if you’re maybe working together at a conference for a week
* receive their online activity streams from services like Facebook and Twitter – getting the latest status of your closest friends whilst you’re away from your computer
* see the photos they have just posted on photo sharing sites like Flickr
* and of course, for the nearly quarter of a million of you who are already using ZYB, continue to receive auto-updates of your friends’ contact details as well as an online back up on zyb.com of all of the contacts, calendar events, photos and text messages on your mobile – so if you lose or change your mobile, you haven’t lost your most valuable data
If you would like to add me on Zyb, my profile is here
Looks like a very cool. Must sign up. I like the way it works across lots of mobile types. Non-Nokia users aren’t locked out too. That’s a great thing.
Limiting oneself largely to a few manufacturers isn’t good. It fosters a territory of tumbleweed.
Zyb rocks and its online backups have saved me twice. But you really need to stay on top of your Zyb syncs because you could find yourself in my shoes where one in four of every contact in my phone is a duplicate, some because names aren’t exacting the same as those I keep in the Zyb cloud.
Just started using. Very neat. Like the fact that I can pick and choose which bits to use rather than having everything foisted on me. I’ll start with backup and basic friending and see where I go from there. I won’t be inserting Twitter feed etc since my experience on Plaxo is that the noise it creates is far too high (same issue I have with FriendFeed).