Bubble Trouble?

[jeromewilson]

OK, so everyone's going to hate me for this, but I felt I had to say it...

$4.5m VC investment, a large team of programmers and an even larger drinks fridge, to develop an Outlook plugin... am I in a 90's time-warp?

Saying that, I am a programmer, I am jealous (interesting job, well funded, nice office, all the fizzy pop you can ingest etc.) and I do like the product (although it killed my PC with extreme slowness, but I'm sure that'll get fixed).

But, but, but... it's an Outlook plugin.

Anyway, sorry for the downer, I do hope Xobni makes it.

[chriSchaeffer]

I am forced to use Outlook at work and Xobni has made my daily Outlook beat-down a lot easier to deal with.

[mbrezina]

Oh Jerome, Xobni is about much more than being an outlook plugin. We actually never even use the word plugin, add-in, etc within the company. As we continue to release updates you'll see that Xobni is about relationship management and personal data search. Outlook just happens to be the place where a large percentage of non-web data exists, and that isn't going to change for a long time.

[cstmgrdallas]

jerome,

i have a feeling that you are probably more of a normal email and outlook user who uses email to exchange messages with friends and co-workers. which is cool.

but if you are in a job where everything you do is interactions with other people in outlook and ESPECIALLY if you also use it for all your personal email, soon you realize that more information about everything you do is contained in outlook than anywhere else.

if email is that important to your life, then all of a sudden it becomes super clear how much more stuff you can get out of that email with tools like xobni. basically without tools like this all of the information contained in emails older than a couple of months is basically worthless because it is totally unorganized and no way to find it.

and matt wrote in the facebook thread they will be integrating with that. the idea of xobni integrating in with facebook and all the other places you have info about yourself and friends on the web, well, maybe now it sounds more reasonable to you?