Did you catch James raving about Xobni over on jkOnTheRun a few weeks ago?

The beauty of Xobni is the type of information it presents to you when you click on any email in your folders. The Xobni sidebar shows everything related to email about the person who sent you that email and makes accessing that information, including any threaded email conversation, just one click away. There is a degree of social networking (a phrase I have come to hate) to this information as you also see everyone who has participated in any of that contact’s email conversations. I can’t overstate how powerful this is for those times when you are looking for that nugget of information that was sent to you oh so long ago.

He surprised me with an invite around that time, but because I am no longer using Outlook I couldn’t really dig in; now you can.

If you wanted the chance to try Xobni, here it is; the details arrived in my inbox this morning…

Dear Xobni Beta User,

Today is an exciting day for Xobni. After seven months of invite-only beta, we’re proud to announce that Xobni is now publicly available for anyone to download. Your feedback has been essential in helping us improve the performance and features of Xobni during this period.

If you are currently running Xobni, it will automatically update to the latest version. If you need to re-download Xobni, download it instantly here:

http://www.xobni.com/download

You can read more about Xobni’s launch in today’s New York Times by going here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/technology/05xobni.html

Of course we will continue to work hard to improve the Xobni experience. And we hope that you will continue to provide valuable feedback.

Please let your friends and colleagues know that a better Outlook email experience awaits them at http://www.xobni.com.
Thanks!

Matt Brezina
Cofounder

Consider it done, Matt! ;-)

Update: Wayne and I are so on top of things this morning that our posts actually collided - yes, we are amazing like that. His included this video…

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Link: Download Xobni
Link: James likes Xobni!