Xobni, a product I’ve been interested in for some time has finally been released to the public.
It’s a Microsoft Outlook extension that claims to find the “hidden social network” in your e-mails. It’s functions do look really cool. For example, when you click the profile of someone you e-mail regularly, it’ll show things like phone numbers that person has e-mailed you, which sounds insanely useful.
One slight problem for me, though: I deleted Outlook from my life months ago. Being a broke freelancer who can’t afford an Exchange server, I keep all my e-mail synchronized through IMAP and Outlook’s support for IMAP is well, pathetic.
There’s still hope, though. Xobni recently walked away from a Microsoft acquisition which means they’ll be free to work on this extension for other e-mail systems so hopefully a Thunderbird (which has killer IMAP support) won’t be far behind.
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