ZYB, an online services that lets you to backup your contact information of the most important people in your lives – family, friends and close business colleagues.

The ZYB Phonebook will, for example, enable you to:

  • see the live physical location of your friends – if they wanscreen_life.jpgt 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

The ZYB Phonebook will be available for download from ZYB for FREE.

Initially, it will work on most Nokia and Sony Ericsson phone but they will be rolling out new versions of the ZYB Phonebook from Q2 2008 onwards to eventually enable all mobile phones to use it.