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Xobni secret project leaked

41 points by brezina 18y ago

utnick 18y ago
looks cool... would be even cooler if the xobni guys worked at one of these big companies and could fully integrate their ideas instead of hacking together ie addons somebody buy these guys please
- raghus 18y ago
  >> ... would be even cooler if the xobni guys worked at one of these big companies and could fully integrate their ideas instead of ... Unlikely. It because they are a small bunch that they have the flexibility and drive to crank out things so fast. Once they are part of BigCo, the risk is that they might end up as a milestone on the roadmap to Outlook 2010.
  - rantfoil 18y ago
    Ack, not a good place to be. On a roadmap. LOL
immad 18y ago
Amusing that the leak comes with invite codes, I can see Xobni was really annoyed about it :P
- deleted 18y ago
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- gaborcselle 18y ago
  Just trying to make lemonade out of lemons.
zkinion 18y ago
You sure that wasn't leaked "on purpose"?
- sama 18y ago
  Given that Matt Brezina submitted this, I would say 100% yes.
  - brezina 18y ago
    or maybe i just read techcrunch and like posting interesting stories to my favorite news aggregator news.yc The plot thickins....
    - aneesh 18y ago
      It is plausible that this wasn't an intentional leak, but it's awfully conveniently timed with the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. This would lose a lot of the buzz if Microsoft-Yahoo had already gone through.
craigbellot 18y ago
Can't wait for the Gmail leak.
- jdroid 18y ago
  Agreed... I just can't get into this companies products because they keep working with services I don't use... Dang.
- dbreunig 18y ago
  Google is doing mail!?>!?!1?!111!!!
shawndrost 18y ago
Looks like someone listened to Arrington at startup school :)
aneesh 18y ago
What this really means is that, regardless of which email service you actually use, Xobni will really be your email hub. They'll have your contacts, attachments, and conversations from all your accounts. I presume Gmail and hotmail releases are in the pipeline too. Hats off to Xobni, for expanding from the analytics side to being an hub for all email activity.
tx 18y ago
IE-only... I understand the motivation behind it and take my hat off to their pains (I did lots of IE BHOs/Sidebars in the past - what a miserable job to have), but don't they have to tackle early adopters first? Even among business users, those who'll most likely to discover Xobni are advanced enough to use FF/Safari, just my $0.02.
- immad 18y ago
  it is not a product, just a prototype.
- gduffy 18y ago
  exists ⇒ ¬ie-only I think that's the only way I can put it without getting into trouble :)
schoudha 18y ago
This is sick. How are they doing this? There's no API for Yahoo mail is there? Are they just monitoring HTTP requests (post).
- aneesh 18y ago
  There is actually. Yahoo Mail Web Services: http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/ http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/

41 points by brezina 18y ago

looks cool... would be even cooler if the xobni guys worked at one of these big companies and could fully integrate their ideas instead of hacking together ie addons somebody buy these guys please

raghus 18y ago
>> ... would be even cooler if the xobni guys worked at one of these big companies and could fully integrate their ideas instead of ... Unlikely. It because they are a small bunch that they have the flexibility and drive to crank out things so fast. Once they are part of BigCo, the risk is that they might end up as a milestone on the roadmap to Outlook 2010.
- rantfoil 18y ago
  Ack, not a good place to be. On a roadmap. LOL

immad 18y ago

Amusing that the leak comes with invite codes, I can see Xobni was really annoyed about it :P

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gaborcselle 18y ago
Just trying to make lemonade out of lemons.

zkinion 18y ago

You sure that wasn't leaked "on purpose"?

sama 18y ago
Given that Matt Brezina submitted this, I would say 100% yes.
- brezina 18y ago
  or maybe i just read techcrunch and like posting interesting stories to my favorite news aggregator news.yc The plot thickins....
  - aneesh 18y ago
    It is plausible that this wasn't an intentional leak, but it's awfully conveniently timed with the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. This would lose a lot of the buzz if Microsoft-Yahoo had already gone through.

craigbellot 18y ago

Can't wait for the Gmail leak.

jdroid 18y ago
Agreed... I just can't get into this companies products because they keep working with services I don't use... Dang.
dbreunig 18y ago
Google is doing mail!?>!?!1?!111!!!

shawndrost 18y ago

Looks like someone listened to Arrington at startup school :)

aneesh 18y ago

What this really means is that, regardless of which email service you actually use, Xobni will really be your email hub. They'll have your contacts, attachments, and conversations from all your accounts. I presume Gmail and hotmail releases are in the pipeline too. Hats off to Xobni, for expanding from the analytics side to being an hub for all email activity.

tx 18y ago

IE-only... I understand the motivation behind it and take my hat off to their pains (I did lots of IE BHOs/Sidebars in the past - what a miserable job to have), but don't they have to tackle early adopters first? Even among business users, those who'll most likely to discover Xobni are advanced enough to use FF/Safari, just my $0.02.

immad 18y ago
it is not a product, just a prototype.
gduffy 18y ago
exists ⇒ ¬ie-only I think that's the only way I can put it without getting into trouble :)

schoudha 18y ago

This is sick. How are they doing this? There's no API for Yahoo mail is there? Are they just monitoring HTTP requests (post).

aneesh 18y ago
There is actually. Yahoo Mail Web Services: http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/ http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/