New features: Free SMS, manage groups, easier location sharing, and status update
We have just released some pretty nice improvements to ZYB. Here are a bunch of them:
Free SMS
Free SMS for everyone! Yes, we’re serious. Starting today, you can send 100 SMS text messages each month - for free. All it takes is to connect to the person you want to send your text messages to.
If you’re a Vodafone customer you might be in for an even bigger treat. More about this in about a week.
Introducing the “Me bar”
The Me bar (as we call it) is all about, yes, you. Enter your contact details, set up your phone, change your profile picture. It’s all available in the new Me bar that you can access from anywhere on ZYB.
Share your location
Update your location. Enter your address or the city you’re in, and allow your friends on ZYB to see where you are right now.
(What’s even more cool, we’ve added the Geode support for Firefox so all you have to do is click a button and be localised. Read more about Geode on our geek blog).
Tell your friends what you are up to
Also in the me bar, we’ve added a quick way for you to change your status line, telling your friends what you are up to (this is what we used to call “shouts”)
Good news for new users
Yet another reason to get your friends on ZYB: Signing up is easier than ever. We’ve simplified, improved, fixed bugs and then simplified a bit more.
Manage your groups
As of today, labels are called groups. We’ve also added an easy way of managing your groups - look for the Groups tab in Settings.
Better contacts overview
Managing your contacts is now a lot simpler. The contacts overview also holds three new, big round buttons: SMS, Email and Call - making it easy for you to contact your friends directly from ZYB
February 16th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Well, I have to say that your 100 free sms were what got me in.
The group management seems a good idea, but add group sms and you’ve got a winner! Also I would like to see your Call functionality working over Java with browser integration, because netmeeting is somewhat more restrictive in terms of mobility.
Way to go ZYB!
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:42 pm
i would like to know how to syn all my contacts from zyb.com to my new phone.. plz help.
May 4th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Hi Rehman,
When you’re signed in, just click the arrows to the left of your profile picture, then “I got a new phone” and follow the steps
Thanks, Adam
May 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Nice