Comments on: TechCrunch40 Session 5: Productivity & Web Apps

By: TC50: Postbox Takes On Outlook And Mac Mail With Smarter, Faster Email Client » The Scripts Zone

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:36:45 +0000

[...] also use your social networks to assign information to each of your contacts. Xobni, a plugin that launched last year at TechCrunch40, has similar functionality, but it’s still only available for [...]

By: TC50: Postbox Takes On Outlook, Mac Mail With Smarter, Faster Email Client

TC50: Postbox Takes On Outlook, Mac Mail With Smarter, Faster Email Client — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:26:33 +0000

By: A Xobni Executive Leaves The Red-Hot Startup. But Why?

A Xobni Executive Leaves The Red-Hot Startup. But Why? — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:03:47 +0000

[...] of August), but it is unexpected, and frankly, doesn’t make much sense. Since launching at TechCrunch40, Xobni has shown impressive growth and received widespread acclaim - Bill Gates demoed the service [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Lancement de la version complète de Orgoo prochainement

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:03:39 +0000

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By: Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; Takes $50,000 Prize

Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; Takes $50,000 Prize — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:37:39 +0000

[...] Mint presented its application this morning during Session 5, which was entitled “Productivity and Web Applications”. See our coverage of that session here. [...]

By: InsaneIdea » Blog Archive » Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni

InsaneIdea » Blog Archive » Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:42:50 +0000

[...] with email startup Xobni, we’ve confirmed through multiple sources. The company, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last year, currently offers an outlook plugin for Windows users that [...]

By: Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni

Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:49:59 +0000

By: NextLeap.net » Ideas I Love: Xobni

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By: Xobni: The Super Plugin For Outlook

Xobni: The Super Plugin For Outlook — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:04:34 +0000

[...] Anyone who depends on email to work, knows how surprisingly bad Outlook is when you get beyond about ten contacts; conversations easily become jumbled, and keeping contacts up to date can be a pain. Xobni’s Outlook plug-in solves these problems with a sidebar that automatically tracks contacts and organizes emails into fully searchable threaded conversations linked back to those people. They were a TechCrunch40 startup - see our coverage here. [...]

By: Orgoo featured at TechCrunch40 « FreeStyleDive

Orgoo featured at TechCrunch40 « FreeStyleDive — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:03:55 +0000

[...] the latest to add to my fast growing ‘Innovate.pk’ list is Orgoo, which was featured at TechCrunch40, a very highly respected annual Silicon Valley conference where 40 vigorously screened startups [...]

By: Clay Cook

Clay Cook — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:01:02 +0000

absolutely loving Xobni - have been using for a week now.
I have been searching for a seriously good outlook plugin for ages.
Still not sure about their business model… ads (i hope not)… subscription (likely unfortunately).

By: iMarketingGuru (SEO Wiki)

iMarketingGuru (SEO Wiki) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:37:09 +0000

Mint is clearly the best choice - I like the looks of App2You now but I’m not that interested in using the application. As for Mint, I think its future is rather promising, but there should be many more streams of income without detracting from personal privacy issues

By: MrP

MrP — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:03:10 +0000

I tried Mint yesterday after reading the TC post. When I saw the results, it looked very similar to two of my financial providers (Bank of America and Fidelity) already provide. Since I knew both these companies use Yodlee, I investigated further and found that Mint uses Yodlee. Mint mentions that they use Yodlee to say that they are secure and therefore they should be trusted. Here are my questions/comments:

1. Yodlee had its own moneycenter and I have an account as well with them. I hardly visit their site after I had set it up. Yodlee realized that the mass market is slow to adopt it and therefore has gone down the path of been offering private-labeled service of their’s through Insitutional companies for a while now. Why do I need Mint? What additional value does it add over what my bank and yodlee do already, other than a pretty site and a flash based graph.

2. They also mention patent pending categorizing technology - well I am not sure about that. Yodlee and as a result BoA/Fidelity provide the same. Is Mint referring to Yodlee’s IP as their IP?

By: Jason Berberich

Jason Berberich — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:17:30 +0000

Curious - why is my comment from September 18th, 2007 at 11:23 am still awaiting moderation?

By: TechCrunch40 Sponsor - Agoracom

TechCrunch40 Sponsor - Agoracom — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:59:27 +0000

Good morning to you all. In addition to Mint, we were also really impressed with Xobni during this session. I’ve been complaining for a while now that Outlook was far too slow and clunky, with no real upgrades made in years.

Xobni seemed like a dream come true. I loved the stats (mail received, mail sent, value, etc.) for each of my contacts, as well as, the fact that Xobni displays connections between contacts, recent messages with the contact and attachments all in 1 view. Very smart, intuitive and efficient.

Definitely going to download when I get back to Toronto and hope it lives us to the presentation.

Regards,
George Tsiolis
Founder
AGORACOM

By: fred

fred — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:42:10 +0000

Has anyone used both Wesabe and Mint? If so, how would you compare and contrast. Thanks!

By: AW

AW — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:41:17 +0000

Ouch, name collisions.

Mint, the web analytics program: http://haveamint.com/
Mint, the money manager: http://www.mint.com/

Mint (the web analytics app) seems pretty popular. Might have been a good idea to google any prospective names before finalizing their brandings. Not only are the names identical, both apps have the same smooth sleek style judging by screenshots.

Oh well — might work out well for them.

By: Seth Mason

Seth Mason — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:54:57 +0000

Seems like mint is getting hammered. Tried adding a couple of accounts from different financial institutions and they all crapped out saying the institutions service was down.

BofA, eTrade and Citibank are all down? I don’t think so.

By: FIRE Finance

FIRE Finance — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:53:27 +0000

According to us, Mint is a great FREE tool for managing our personal finances. Now it depends on us, the user community to adopt it and help it move forward with our support and feedback. If I can do all my money manangement free of cost and in an easier time saving manner, who needs Quicken. Thanks Mint!

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:48:40 +0000

Xobni is awesome! Seriously, you should sign up for the beta and try it out.

By: Albeit

Albeit — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:45:27 +0000

Per Bob #15 - would be good to get Mint/TC’s take on this:

Intuit building Quicken Online

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9759443-7.html

By: debtkid

debtkid — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:20:43 +0000

I was a mint.com beta tester and I can tell you that mint is easily the best finance application I’ve ever seen. It recognized accurately most transactions and auto-updates bank and account information. It’s still got some issues to work out, but the interface is slick and the SMS notifications (for a low checking account balance for example) are really nice.

debtkid

By: Albeit

Albeit — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:10:55 +0000

Looks like Mint account data pulls are powered using Yodlee as the vendor (though they are not highlighting that fact).

Is that much different than going to the source and using Money Center for free from Yodlee (apart from the credit card and other offers, that is) if all you want to do is keep better track of money?

By: Nemrut

Nemrut — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:24:31 +0000

Mint seems really useful. The only problem with it is getting people to trust a ‘no-name site/company’ w/their *very* personal financial data. We’ve already seen compnies like IBM, and most recently, Ameritrade lose customer/employee data through incompetence or being hacked.

What assurance can a small compny like Mint provide to potential customers that data wont go missing or even sold to outside parties…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:22:13 +0000

Whoopie, you’re right that any application that requires you to enter data, or forward it (manually) from your banks is dead. Mint links directly and with bank-level data security to all your accounts. You set it up in 2 minutes, and from that point on it updates automatically every night.