Level 3 made some quite interesting interviews with speakers and visitors at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam earlier this month. Tommy was interviewed about his views on the internets past, present and future. See the interview here 

Yesterday, Adam from Lifehacker rounded up 10 recent mobile phone related posts (one of them is actually about ZYB)

Included in the round-up is this funny but potentially useful tip about drying your soaked phone in rice. It could save your phone the next time you drop it in liquid, be it in the swimming pool (like Adam) or in the toilet like 885.000 Brits do every year, accoring to the Daily Mail.

If rice for some reason doesn’t do the trick for your little drowned friend, you’ll be happy that you stored your phone’s contacts and calendar on ZYB. 

ZYB was presenting in front of 400+ people at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam last week. Great conference by the way. We will certainly come back next year!

During the 10 minute presentation the audience was initially told about the initial crazy and not so crazy thoughts behind the ZYB you know today. Then, starting with the (soon to become) legendary paraphrase ”Contact is king”, Tommy used the second half of the presentation to talk about our immediate plans for the future of ZYB. The presentation even included some sneak previews of the new sides of ZYB.

Now you be the audience!

-Runar

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If someone told you that ZYB didn’t have a blog, would you believe them? Well they were right until yesterday.

While other current internet start-up’s tend to set out with only a blog and a launch date (and then use the blog to announce postponements of the launch date), we started out by launching our free mobile backup service (and then got too busy to think about blogging).

But now we’re finally here, so let’s just get straight to the point. ZYB is changing!

11 months ago we launched ZYB, and overnight it revolutionised the way mobile backup was supposed to be done. For the first time people all over the world could easily store their mobile phone data online, independently of their mobile operator without paying a cent for it. We tried to make mobile backup cool, and I think we succeeded in doing this. But we always wanted to do more, and ever since the launch of ZYB we have been working on the big idea.

Behind the scenes we have been assembling the nuts and bolts of what we hope will become the next major step forward in our quest to bring mobile data to life. ZYB already lets people share contacts and events from their phone, and many ZYB users are using these features. But I honestly must admit that the current sharing facilities aren’t brilliant, and we always wanted to make sharing much easier and more exiting. This is what we hope to have accomplished with the new ZYB due to launch within the next weeks.

ZYB will continue to be the secure mobile backup service that you know and trust, but we will make a whole new section of ZYB devoted to sharing and interacting with other users. So ZYB is changing. It will be different, but fundamentally the same. Revolutionising, but with old habits in place.

I think you’ll like it.

-Tommy