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Having met one of Xobni's co-founders recently and hearing more about Xobni's vision, I can tell you that they are not just planning to be a plug in for Outlook
by jsb 19y ago
Having met one of Xobni's co-founders recently and hearing more about Xobni's vision, I can tell you that they are not just planning to be a plug in for Outlook. Xobni Insight is a plug in for Outlook, but it is just a starting point for the company. They do want to expand into Yahoo and Gmail clients, various instant messenger clients and who knows what else to help organize your personal information. Give them some more time and I'm sure you'll be seeing more offerings before long.
- brezina 19y agojsb got it right. Our goal is to organize your personal information centered around relationships and communication. Think of all the places where people communicate with you (web, IM, social networks); we want to organize that data. Present day Xobni is already more than a plugin to Outlook. We keep our own store of all of Outlook's email data and our UI doesn't use the Outlook plugin architecture (it is very limited). What does this mean? .... it means you can point Xobni at any email data store and display it within any application. However, there are costs to moving to new platforms, so for the time being Outlook is the place to be - 300 million users and they have credit cards.