Xobni

I was at a field visit for a class last Thursday and the man speaking to us casually mentioned a new system he was trying to interface with his Outlook. The name of the product is Xobni. At first I thought, "what the heck kind of name is that for a product?" Then I thought, "it down, Chan, so you can remember it for your blog this week!" So here I am, writing about this tool called Xobni. The program was developed by a San Francisco based start up company. It was founded by two men, Adam Smith and Matt Brezina in the spring of 2006. The company believes hat people spend too much time searching for conversations, attachments, and other information stored in their inbox.

Xobni is the tool to solve this problem. As you might have already noticed, Xobni is inbox spelled backwards. This was done to demonstrate the companies mission to "take back the email inbox for users." Xobni helps emailers by creating a profile for each individual that emails a person. The profiles contain relationship statistics, information regarding the contact, social connections, threaded conversations, and shared attachments. Xobni can be downloaded right from the website. Once downloaded, users will see the Xobni toolbar appear and when a new email arrives, the senders full communication history appears in the Xobni sidebar. The tool also do things such as extract contact information from emails and keep track of the users busy schedule.

This tool could prove to make industry people, like those in the events industry more organized, and help to keep track of contacts that maybe people don't think they need, and then realize they suddenly do and have to searching back through their emails from weeks past to find that one particular number. I know I personally hate that! If I was cool enough to have a job and an outlook email address at work right now, I would definitely think about downloading Xobni to help keep me organized, it looks really cool!