Thanks for the very kind post. The response has been truly amazing. Just to clarify, we did a 12 hour early beta period yesterday for people following TechCrunch40 conference. We are now in invite-only beta. We have a very small team and we need to limit the install base to handle feedback and still have time to iterate on the product. We will be rolling out more invites soon. If you are interested, sign-up at www.xobni.com/download
Cheers, Matt Xobni Founder
Peter Cranstone
· 2 years ago
Question... is this a service? Do I have to be connected to one of their servers when I run the software?
Daniel Ha
· 2 years ago
Nope.
Xobni rocks. If I wasn't just testing it through Parallels, I'd be using it full-time. I can't wait for a Mac version.
Rahul Gupta
· 2 years ago
Have you used the LinkedIn toolbar? This sounds like it shares a lot of functionality with that. LinkedIn is my social network of choice and I find the tie-in with my outlook to be a great step forward. I'd like to see if Xobni complements or conflicts with this functionality.
Rahul Gupta
· 2 years ago
Well, I probably should have done this before my earlier post, but I just checked out Xobni's site, and now I'm *really* excited to get my hands on this. It looks like a great way to make my use of e-mail much more efficient -- I particularly dig the attachment history.
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
linkedin crashes my outlook. i think its because i have a large mailbox file
rahulgupta
· 2 years ago
Hm. I guess LinkedIn should buy Xobni.
Andrew Baisley
· 2 years ago
I downloaded and installed Xobni yesterday (note: I didn't need an invite... just went to the site). I love it. After using it for just one day it's become nearly irreplaceable. In my opinion, anything that works this well, is this easy to use and fills such a huge need... well, it's good in my book. I can't wait for the Gmail version.
David Ulevitch
· 2 years ago
Fred,
I'm surprised. Regardless of how large the market share of Outlook is, and it's huge, history has been crystal clear about what happens to companies who try to deeply integrate with Microsoft products. They either get locked out, or much of their functionality replicated in a future version by MS. It's the typical MS "Embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy. I wish Xobni the best of luck, but history is not on their side.
Breck
· 2 years ago
I was also very impressed with Xobni. I think I may go back to Outlook after 3 years of Gmail just to try it out. I particularly like the idea of how it shows you graphs of your message history with a person.
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
well lookout is an example of where MSFT bought instead of built
Ken Berger
· 2 years ago
I have a few invites as well. My contact info is findable on my website (click on my name).
fkur69
· 2 years ago
I played with it and the functionnalities are cool - think business intelligence for inbox management and as someone says here this is something that MSFT could add later to Outlook (iot would make sense). For the moment it's a very interesting data-driven take on email management which is a real issue for many people. I do suffer from email overflow and the issue I have had so far with the beta version of Xobni is that it has not been able to cope with the size of my inbox, hence slowing down dramatically the speed of use of Outlook and the PC. I have had to remove it but look forward to playing with a more advanced verion.
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
i've got the same issues.
but it's early beta (invite only) so I am hoping and expecting they'll get the speed issues figured out
my outlook mailbox file is 8.5 gigs, the largest our tech consultant has ever seen.
i am cringing as i write this question, but how large is yours?
fred
fkur69
· 2 years ago
wow 8.5 gigs! our IT guy has managed to force me to cut it in 2 from 2.5G to 1.2G (excluding archives on the server) and I had the issues i mentioned above. It says something about Outlook becoming the defacto filing system for many of us. Automatic and intuitive filing is another pb to solve. Frederic
daivd hyman
· 2 years ago
didn't you say social graphs should be called social networks?
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
i did but then i was educated in the comments that social graph is a technical term and why it's the right term.
i am often wrong with my posts, but when i am, i get educated.
fred
Giordano
· 2 years ago
Any plans for a Thunderbird version yet?
Mary Branscombe
· 2 years ago
fkur - for so easy it's actually creepy filing in look check out SpeedFiler - www.claritude.com
All Comments
Thanks for the very kind post. The response has been truly amazing. Just to clarify, we did a 12 hour early beta period yesterday for people following TechCrunch40 conference. We are now in invite-only beta. We have a very small team and we need to limit the install base to handle feedback and still have time to iterate on the product. We will be rolling out more invites soon. If you are interested, sign-up at www.xobni.com/download
Cheers,
Matt
Xobni Founder
Xobni rocks. If I wasn't just testing it through Parallels, I'd be using it full-time. I can't wait for a Mac version.
I'm surprised. Regardless of how large the market share of Outlook is, and it's huge, history has been crystal clear about what happens to companies who try to deeply integrate with Microsoft products. They either get locked out, or much of their functionality replicated in a future version by MS. It's the typical MS "Embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy. I wish Xobni the best of luck, but history is not on their side.
but it's early beta (invite only) so I am hoping and expecting they'll get the speed issues figured out
my outlook mailbox file is 8.5 gigs, the largest our tech consultant has ever seen.
i am cringing as i write this question, but how large is yours?
fred
Frederic
i am often wrong with my posts, but when i am, i get educated.
fred