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Xobni drops beta, organizes your Outlook info faster

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Xobni is an Outlook plugin that adds social networking and search features to the email and contact organizer. We first looked at Xobni when the service launched in public beta last year. Today Xobni is dropping the beta tab with the release of Xobni 1.7.

The new version doesn't come with any shiny new features, but it it does have a number of improvements under the hood that let Xobni and Outlook work better together. For instance, Xobni loads faster, loads messages better due to caching, and users can controlho woften and how much of their email is indexed by the plugin. You can also decide whether Xobni will open every time you launch Outlook or if you want it to appear only when you want it.

Xobni continues to be available as af ree download, but the company is working on a premium version that will be available this summer.

Filed under: Windows, Social Software, Beta, Search

Xobni brings Skype, Facebook, Yahoo! integration to Outlook

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Xobni is a plugin for Outlook that adds advanced search and social functions to the email client. When we last looked at Xobni, the service indexed your email messages and created personal profiles for each of your contacts by automatically extracing phone numbers and loking users up on LinkedIn. Now Xobni has rolled out an update that adds integration with Skype, Facebook, Hoovers, and Yahoo! Mail.

Here's how it works. You can search for email using the Xobni sidebar. When you click on a message, Xobni will pull up information about the sender, including information from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Hoovers. If your contact's Skype profile or phone number are available, you can also initiate a call with the click of a button.

In addition to searching your Outlook mail, you can also have Xobni index your Yahoo! Mail, although in order to reply to messages you'll need to login to the Yahoo! Mail web interface.

Filed under: Internet, Windows, E-mail, Beta

Xobni launches public beta of Outlook email add-on

Xobni is one of those services that you kind of have to see to understand its value, which is why we've included the promotional video above. But in a nutshell, it's a Microsoft Outlook add-on that gives you detailed information about the people you email most often and help you organize your communications.

The program adds a sidebar to Outlook and creates a profile for people you communicate with by pulling information from your email messages even if you haven't created a contact profile in Outlook. Here are a few of the things Xobni can show you:

  • The phone numbers of people you email are automatically extracted from messages
  • You can see a graph of the times of day when a contact typically emails you, so you will know if they're less likely to respond to a message after business hours
  • Xobni automatically displays all attachments a contact has sent you
  • See statistics about your contacts, easily find the people you email the most often, and identify contacts you've lost touch with

Xobni has been available as a private beta for a few months now, but this morning the company took down the private sign and opened the beta up to everyone who wants to download and install the utility. Well, everyone who uses Windows and Outlook anyway.

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