What is Xobni?
Xobni offers a new way to organize and search your Outlook email. Xobni creates profiles for each person that emails you. These profiles contain relationship statistics, contact information, social connections, threaded conversations, and shared attachments. Our users tell us that Xobni makes your inbox work the way your mind does. We hope you'll give it a try.

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    • mjhitchcock - Xobni Challenge: E-Mail wins over Twitter
    • 11 months ago — 99 views
        1. Can't you just publish your stuff to the web and send them a tweet with a link in it? foleymo
        2. Sure, but then I'm doing it on two sites. Email is sort of one-stop shopping. Twitter has its advantages, but when it comes to attachments its just not cutting it for me. mjhitchcock
        3. This cuts to the chase and here's the holdup: at work, ppl generally don't want to learn new things and leaders only want to keep the hierarchy in place. The knowledge economy workplace itself is borked, hasn't been upgraded since Freddie Taylor; email and twitter are both stage props. silverton
        4. There's been fantastic progress since Taylor (e.g., Drucker)! It's not a matter of learning new things with Twitter; it's a matter of efficiency (okay...maybe a bit Taylor-esque). Regardless, I am interested in further clarification regarding your comment that "...email and Twitter are both stage props." Expound, please. I'm always up for new ideas. mjhitchcock
        5. I hear you, re: Drucker, yet ... meh. Not impressed. Anecdotally, at least 20% of our current western J.O.B. entranced economy consists of make-work, non-work, making humans haul their bodies to a cubicle as a Justification Of Being for a paycheck. This is a broken way to circulate liquidity to the edges, where it must be distributed in order for the Circulatory System to work. We can fix the heart (banks) all day but with 70% of the blood clotted in 1% of the system (hoarded, unsustainably skewed personal wealth), the capillaries (consumers) don't stand a chance and the whole body is dead. Next, physical location is utterly meaningless in today's knowledge economy and arguable has been so for the past two decades. We're dragging our feet. We're digging in our heals. For what? We grew out of and beyond the Industrial, Service, and even Information stages of development. Freddie and (to a lesser degree) Peter's old school cut-throat capitalism worked in those cases. It worked. Yay! We beat those levels. Now what? The next levels feature 25% and growing Structural Unemployment and hybrid, Mixed Economy models closer to something like Free Market Socialism. Sorry, Michigan, but your right to be the world's manufacturer ends where the right of Chinese peasants to grow through that stage of development begins. Stream of consciousness off; I gotta' get back to work. Sorry no time to write the treatise in 12 seconds. http://capitalismplusplus.blogspot.com/ Onward! ;-) silverton
        6. So much to disagree with in there, and so little motivation to follow-up. :) Seriously, I'm not sure how this went from email to the evils of capitalism, so I'm going to drop out of this conversation. You have some interesting points, but I'm not going to get further pulled into a global political argument at this point. Too much of that in my life right now anyway. Thanks for the discussion, though! mjhitchcock
        1. What if you could have both? Imagine a program where you could draft up your communication, just like e-mail, but when you hit Send, the subject line and a link goes to the recipient, and the rest of the content is stored on your end (on a blog, Google Doc, Windows Live Workspace, Mobile Me, etc.). You can send a link to your content without clogging up your recipient's inbox. Content storage via Google Docs, etc. and content sharing via Twitter. foleymo
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    • foleymo - Xobni Challenge: Twitter will take over e-mail
    • 11 months ago — 105 views
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        1. Now, when you send an e-mail to 20 people, 21 copies of it are stored on the Internet. One in your Sent folder and one in each Inbox you send to. In the future, you can just tweet the subject line and a link, and have the content automatically sent to where ever you keep your online stuff (personal blog, Google Docs, Mobile Me, Windows Live Workspace, etc.). There's no need to create 21 copies and pollute the web with all that excess when one copy will do. Twitter sets up the foundation for this type of delivery service. It just needs to be properly linked to content storage systems and basic security measures. Twitter will only get more bad ass as it evolves. We're just seeing it's infancy now, and it's already awesome! foleymo
        2. So you think ... highonblog
        1. I'm pretty sure that smart people at place like Xobni, TweetDeck, Twitter, WordPress, etc. are already working on these kinds of things. It's a race to see who can partner up the fastest or build their own infrastructure. foleymo
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