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

Apple has just picked our beloved iPhone application for their featured webapp for the iPhone. This has gotten a lot of attention to the app, and for people new to ZYB, here’s a step by step guide on how to get your contacts from your old phone, onto your new shiny iPhone

1. Create an account on zyb.com
2. Sync your old phone using our simple guides
3. Point your iPhone to iphone.zyb.com

That’s it! You now have access to all of your contacts, and calendar events, directly from your iPhone. The interface is very similar to the one you already know from iPhone’s native contactlist, and you can of course call, email and display on Google maps, directly from the list.

Apple has promised to open up the iPhone to allow others to develop applications for it, and as soon as that happens, we will of course develop a client for it, so that you can ultimately sync your iPhone automatically, without the need for pesky cables. A lot of our users has asked for this, and to be honest, so have a lot of people on the ZYB team
If you want to be notified when our client is ready, please comment below, or shoot a mail to our guys at support.