The basic concept is that your email inbox is a more useful social networking tool than Facebook, MySpace, or other services, but web-based email clients generally don't present the same kind of tools for sorting through your rich media content that you can find on the other sites.
The Xoopit plugin is currently available for Firefox 1.5 and newer, and works with Gmail only. In the future, Xoopit plans to add support for Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL Mail and other services. Xoopit is in private beta,
Update: The first 250 Download Squad readers to sign up with the code dsquad can get in on the beta today!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-01-2008 @ 7:29AM
alstki said...
Why do they need your gmail password if this is a plug-in? Not liking that much.
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4-01-2008 @ 7:31AM
kikuchiyosesa said...
I don't like that I have to give my gmail password...
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4-01-2008 @ 10:25AM
mrblewett said...
Well I signed up... I think they named it wrong... it should be stoopit instead of xoopit... this is useless for anyone who isn't a 13 year old girl and does not do anything but slow gmail down by showing pictures I don't care to see.
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4-01-2008 @ 10:31AM
Beebs said...
They expect people to give their gmail password?!? Come on people...
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4-01-2008 @ 10:36AM
Jerrios said...
Yeah, I was all for checking it out until I saw they ask for your gmail password. I'll pass.
4-01-2008 @ 10:54AM
Nerd said...
What kind of stxoopit joke is this asking for passwords to people's email account?!? Ain't all that funny, even on April's Fool Day.
No, thx. Simple as that.
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4-01-2008 @ 11:38AM
Jonathan Katzman said...
Hi, this is JK, one of Xoopit’s founders. We’ve seen the comments regarding email passwords and privacy issues here and elsewhere. You can think of Xoopit as a mail client, which makes it possible for you to access your mail data. We use industry best practices to secure our service and encrypt your password and have rigorous internal policies on the same.
We put up a very frank blog post yesterday on how we manage your data.
http://blog.xoopit.com/2008/03/how-xoopit-mana.html
Please comment or email me if you would like to have a further conversation on this.
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4-01-2008 @ 3:06PM
cw said...
Standards or no standards, servers get compromised all the time. You don't really expect people to give you their passwords do you? Look at Remember the Milk, they have plug-ins that work in/with gmail but don't ask for the password.
I think you guys need to rethink this and get back to us.
4-01-2008 @ 8:09PM
Draku said...
Question #3: Do you store a copy of my email?
We currently index and store a copy of your email on our servers so that we can help you discover new things lost in your inbox as we add new indexing features, like support for Facebook messages.
This post must be renamed to Xoopit steal your emails with your agrement and give you in exchange preatty pictures now and spam ads and shit in the future.
Question #4: Will you delete my account if I ask?
Yes, we will in 24 to 48 hours. No ifs, ands or buts. That said, please send us feedback.
Don't wait change your gmail password NOW