So what’s the plan? We’ll let our users keep playing with Imity until we’re all set in the new ZYB Phonebook. To keep server maintenance down and our focus clear, we’ll be closing down for new signups in a matter of hours.

Looking back at our blue office chairs and worn out test phones, we’ve had a blast experimenting and meeting a lot of people as a natural part of it all. The numbers speak for themselves, our users, and the future of this thing: 400,000 encounters among 70,000 people. Who said tech people didn’t have social lives?

But why not head over to our new home, zyb.com and try the best phonebook tool out there?

(Official press release)

But the TechCrunch post is a welcome opportunity to say, that I’ll be putting a new version of our server software up that should help make our service more hackable for uses we haven’t considered. It all has to do with a better/simpler model for virtual objects in physical spaces - but more on that in a couple of weeks, when the news is about something that’s out there.

Curious about which up and coming bands were hits at the Vesterbro festival last weekend? Have a look at the minute to minute popularity-meter above.

We* are busy preparing our amazing Imity-based concert suggester service for the Roskilde Festival.
With the help of the super friendly organizers of the local Vesterbro Festival here in Copenhagen, we put on a huge beta test over the last weekend.
We got a truly fascinating data set - as you can see above.
The bands are all local up and coming Copenhagen acts and apart from being able to tell which bands were hits at the festival you can also see how the build up worked during the concert: Some of the bands have high recognition and people flocked to those concerts from the very beginning (e.g. I Got You On Tape) - other less well known acts just put on a good show, so people showed up little by little but stayed at the concert (e.g. Teppop).
Thanks to those of you who signed up for the service at the festival. I know we had a couple of technical glitches along the way, but this was really a good and very useful experience for us. Hope you had fun too. And hope to see you again at Roskilde.

* We: That means Imity and a group of students at ITU - who are working with us on this as a term project.

The project is coming together nicely and will get its first public test this friday and saturday at a local music festival here in Copenhagen.

Hope to see you there as well, and talk about Imity and ubiquity.

We’re having some server problems - have been since the O’Reilly mention, actually - that are largely due to the system running at what I would describe as experimental hardware levels. It’s not a complete blackout most of the time, but I am aware that some pages in the web app fail almost all of the time. I’m going to add hardware next week as well as do what else I can to get a faster running service.

Sorry about the mess. I’ll be back with more as the situation develops.

Also in Imity news, we’re (that is: I am) going to be presenting at XTech in Paris this may. It’d be great to talk to some of you about the client, and other ubiquity hacks if you’re going. If you’re going to Reboot - which is here in Copenhagen - we’ll of course be there, and most likely also doing something with the app during the conference. I doubt we’ll be on the official program though.

If you’re interested in the open source app or in hooking up to hack imity or talk about applications of Imity leave a comment or get in touch.