ZYB - Online social phonebook (nu ook op T-Mobile)

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T-Mobile in the Netherlands, who recently acquired Orange, asked ZYB to assist with a migration tool enabling existing Orange customers to transfer their phone data to their new T-Mobile phones. That is the beginning of a great story of how the T-Mobile Migration Tool evolved. Check it out on http://zyb.com/migrator/tmobile .

Lijkt er op dat dit de migration tool is op de iphone.

Zyb first launched in mid 2006 as a service to back up your mobile phone. Through a relatively painless process, users can auto-sync their contacts and calendar to ZYB’s servers. It’s useful in the event of a lost phone, but the web interface is actually much easier to use to enter new contact and calendar information, too. The service, which is free, has about 200,000 active users (mostly in Europe).
ZYB, realizing that people add most or all of their close friends, co-workers and family as mobile phone contacts, has now built a social network to leverage those connections. You can add anyone on your contact list as a friend, which sends a request to them to add you as well. Users have standard profile pages to add photos, comments, etc. And they can also text/sms in status updates which appear on their profile, and friends can choose to subscribe to those status updates via text as well (very Twitter-like).
ZYB is free to users, although the company says they will eventually add premium services like Outlook-sync for an additional fee.