Xobni: A Whole New Look for your Outlook Inbox

by Nathan Danforth on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 · 5 comments

in Decision Making, Search, Visualization

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Xobni offers a new way to organize and search your Outlook email. Xobni creates profiles for each person that emails you. These profiles contain relationship statistics, contact information, social connections, threaded conversations, and shared attachments.

I’ve been increasingly interested in how the ever growing popularity of social networking sites would integrate with new technology to actually create something valuable beyond trading pictures, wall posts, and friend requests…

Xobni Launches Partnership with Facebook Connect

The Xobni sidebar in Outlook will display public data from Facebook profiles and will also offer the user an option to sign into their Facebook account through Xobni and view private data like photos and status messages for their Facebook friends.

Now… unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you know that Facebook is a preferred site for wasting time at work. Maybe employers will embrace this as a way to hopefully keep internet roaming employees more focused on work…? Or probably not

I’ve only been using Xobni for a few days and I can confidently say that I’m less bored checking my work e-mail. Thanks Xobni!

Here’s a video demo of the tool. Take a look:

And you can Download Xobni Here for free

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1 Ben Monday, June 1, 2009 at 10:14 am

what is xobni? an instant messenger? a facebook manger? i don´t know. I´m only wondering for what all these "features" are needed? I thought you want to search you e-mails?! and i get the opinion that xobni does a lot, but also search in your outlook?

Using xobni for work will mean a lot of trouble. do you think my boss likes me to chat with my contacs or something? my boss wants to see me work. and at work i want to search a mail fast and find it fast. nothing more. this is a question of efficiecy. time is money (..)

I´m sorry for this negative comment but this is my opinion.

2 Neal_L Friday, June 5, 2009 at 8:49 pm: Ben, thanks for the comment. I don't see it as negative at all.

I myself have mixed feelings about xobni. I have installed it and uninstalled it multiple times.

What it is really good at is helping you see really quickly how/when you have communicated with an individual. A lot of my job is to stay in touch with people.

I find ClearContext for Outlook to do the job better.

Thanks for the thought provoking comment!!

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3 Oliver Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 5:20 pm

Hey

@Ben: I agree with you although I do not think as negative as you do. I've decided that xobni is simply inappropriate for my work .
@Neal: A colleague of mine uses ClearContext. He might be okay with it, I am not, because it is really annoying to run a second application and to switch between ClearContext and Outlook.

My choice: Definitely lookeen (http://www.lookeen.net). The search tool, fast and reliable. I could not imagine working without it. Maybe you two want to give it a try.

4 Neal_L Monday, June 8, 2009 at 11:21 am: Thanks Oliver!! I'll take a look at lookeen.

I'm not sure what you mean though re:clearcontext. For me, it is just on Add-on to outlook and operates in a toolbar within outlook.

Thanks for the tip on lookeen!

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5 Oliver Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Hey Neal

You're right, just checked the official website of clearcontext. Looks interesting although I am not willing at the moment to take a closer look . What about lookeen? Have you tried it?