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mogrinz
05-28-2008, 02:57 PM
I'm curious who the target market is for xobni. I think most consumers use web-based email (yahoo, hotmail, gmail) and that outlook has its largest installed base in the corporate environment.

That said, it seems that xobni could do more to focus on this marketplace. Allowing a certain amount of corporate branding to be added (at least let us customize the colors! and lose the xobni logo at the top & bottom. Even microsoft doesn't emblazon their products' titles across the apps themselves), handle distribution groups better, let me easily email multiple recipients from the xobni panel (who only emails 1 person at a time these days?)

Corporations that centrally manage software won't want the "recommend to a friend" icon. When we buy a site license for xobni (eventually), everyone will get it.

Lastly, for me at least, I keep the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar open to the right of my mail. Xobni has inserted itself between the mail view and the to-do bar. I would personally like to have the ability to move xobni over to the extreme right. And please allow me to permanently turn off "Fun Facts".

dmin777
05-30-2008, 11:19 PM
I agree that we should have more control over our environment. I have had some of these things pop up with a timer and THAT is very annoying.

billybob_jcv
06-03-2008, 02:36 AM
I was wondering the same thing - I think this could be a HUGE corporate tool if it was tuned for that market. We're the ones who benefit most from being able to quickly search across multiple folders and huge archives. To be honest, I don't see the point of the "social" aspects to this tool. Maybe I'm just an old fart, but the emails per hour, people network, etc are really of no interest to me. I *know* who my co-workers send the vast majority of their emails to - the same people I do - other co-workers. IMHO, you could get rid of all that stuff and just give me a kick-butt search facility and good threaded views.

And yes, IMHO xobini takes up way more real estate than it should - I would like a way to turn-off the doodads and to resize and/or disable each of the portlets. Minimalist is better.