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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: March 24, 2009
- Total Downloads: 32,215
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 73 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on March 24, 2009
Freeware Xobni integrates into your Outlook installation and shows you more about your e-mails than Outlook can by itself. For each person who sends you e-mail, it shows you who else they frequently communicate with--their de facto social networks--and it also finds their phone number from inside their e-mails. It shows you all conversation threads you've participated in with the person, and all the attachments they've sent you. You can drill into message threads, and it has a snappy but redundant e-mail search engine built-in.
Xobni the app runs on Xobni the platform, which has hooks deep into Outlook. The platform is what enables Xobni to graft a viewing pane into Outlook, something other plug-ins can't do, and it's the platform that gives Xobni access to all the message data that it uses without bogging down Outlook itself. Unlike many other Outlook add-ons, Xobni seems to add its functionality without dragging down Outlook's performance, or worse, crashing it. The interface doesn't get in the way, and in fact makes communication easier by searching Yahoo mail from Outlook, as well as pulling in your contact info from LinkedIn, Facebook, Skype, and others for searching. There's no reason not to try it.
Future plans for Xobni include integration into Outlook's default search bar and support for other e-mail apps Gmail, and making the platform available to other vendors--all of which indicate that Xobni definitely wants to be here for the long haul.
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Publisher's description
From Xobni :Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that saves you time finding email conversations, contacts and attachments.
After a quick install, you'll see the new Xobni toolbar appear in Outlook - and suddenly information will become much easier to find. When a new email arrives, the sender's full communication history appears in the Xobni sidebar, including past conversations, attachments and contact details. Xobni also includes a blazing fast email search tool.
Xobni 1.7 starts Outlook 31 percent faster, with the option to have Xobni installed but not start with Outlook. Profiles now load 42 percent faster and there are more performance controls so users can control how often and how much data Xobni indexes.
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Xobni 1.7 starts Outlook 31 percent faster, with the option to have Xobni installed but not start with Outlook. Profiles now load 42 percent faster and there are more performance controls so users can control how often and how much data Xobni indexes.
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User reviews of Xobni 1.7
- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 73 votes
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Version: Xobni 1.7
"Wants to Steal my contact information!!"
Pros: See cons....
Cons: It gathers your private contact information for their own marketing purposes.
Summary: Upon installation it immediately went to work saving my contact emails, for the purpose of sending Ads and messages. Definite invasion of privacy without permission!! Hope I don't get embarrassed if my top emailed contacts received these ads from ... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Xobni 1.7
"probably does its job well, but not Outlook Express"
Pros: probably does its job well
Cons: neither the description nor cnet editors review stated that Xobni wouldnt work with Outlook Express, prior to installation...which was crucial information.
Summary: Not for me
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Version: Xobni 1.7
Pros: History was good, but unnecessary, especially to contacts. Old contacts can not be removed.
Cons: Slowing of Outlook. Perhaps too much information.
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Version: Xobni 1.7
Pros: I had not expected to find such a tidy summary of my contacts in one place.
Cons: Sometimes I would like to minimize it to see more of the Outlook display.
Summary: The experience has been alright, but I am still getting used to it. I am not unhappy with it and that is far more positive than it seems.
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Version: Xobni 1.7
Pros: Automatically pulls data from multiple sources, placing it in instant siedbar view!
Cons: Network data should allow exclusion of sent email so true relationships are shown, relationships based on sent email are useless. Doesnt correctly pull all data from Outlook Contacts. Wants to steal my contact data if I login to Facebook or LinkedIn
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