Comments on: Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni

By: Xobni importera les données de LinkedIn pour vos contacts Outlook

Xobni importera les données de LinkedIn pour vos contacts Outlook — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:20:41 +0000

[...] à TechCrunch 40, Xobni rencontre le succès et a été remarqué par Bill Gates qui avait présenté le produit à la “Office Developers Conference” et l’avait qualifié de “complément [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Xobni importera les données de LinkedIn pour vos contacts Outlook

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:37:56 +0000

[...] à TechCrunch 40 Xobni rencontre le succès et a été remarqué par Bill Gates qui avait presenté le produit à la “Office Developers Conference” et l’avait qualifié de “complément [...]

By: Xobni - Outlook Plugin to Organise, Collate, Track, Search, Correlate your email « Iain’s Blog

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:12:35 +0000

[...] Microsoft try to buy it here - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....tup-xobni/ [...]

By: » Xobni - the Essential Outlook Plugin the word according to neil thompson » Blog Archive

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:00:16 +0000

[...] It also seems that I am not the only one that has taken a shine to Xobni as the rumours suggest that Microsoft may be looking to buy the company. [...]

By: D.I.A Free News Online 2008 » Techcrunch: Sources: Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:23:54 +0000

[...] independent sources tell us that the Microsoft/Xobni deal is moving along and that Microsoft signed an acquisition LOI in the last week. I have not yet been [...]

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Why Americans love haterade « Carus.Famulus.Proeliator.Princeps — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:20:47 +0000

[...] Microsoft is making another attempt to acquire Xobni, “inbox spelled backwards,” after the last sub-$20 million offer that was too [...]

By: Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni

Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:27:47 +0000

[...] independent sources tell us that the Microsoft/Xobni deal is moving along and that the two companies signed a an acquisition LOI in the last week. I have not [...]

By: Laurent’s blog » Blog Archive » Microsoft acquires Xobni, good or bad?

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:02:30 +0000

[...] (here and here) were true. Yesterday, Xobni finally came to an agreement with Microsoft to be acquired. An [...]

By: Mail Trends looks deep into your in-box : Half Spy

Mail Trends looks deep into your in-box : Half Spy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:22:49 +0000

[...] triage.” Apparently, Microsoft hasn’t been able to turn the research into product. TechCrunch has suggested that Microsoft is in negotiations to acquire [...]

By: Mail Trends looks deep into your inbox « IT Spot

Mail Trends looks deep into your inbox « IT Spot — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:00:06 +0000

[...] triage.” Apparently, Microsoft hasn’t been able to turn the research into product. TechCrunch has suggested that Microsoft is in negotiations to acquire [...]

By: outlook guy

outlook guy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:41:33 +0000

Doesn’t Plaxo have a similar plugin? And I’ve got to assume Plaxo has a much bigger user base. Between the Plaxo and LinkedIn pluggins, I’m tentative to install another.

By: 10 Ideas to Take LinkedIn to the Next Level: Because It Needs It (Sorry Guys) « SmoothSpan Blog

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:22:18 +0000

[...] There are rumors that Microsoft is in acquisition talks with Xobni, the cool Social Graph add-on for Microsoft Outlook email users. That’s bad for LinkedIn. Xobni lets Microsoft build the first tier of LinkedIn’s information (people’s current business contact info but not their history) almost instantly from the huge installed base of Outlook users. LinkedIn needs a strong answer to this threat. Yes, I know, I have the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar and I’m sure LinkedIn thinks they have this base covered, but they don’t. Xobni just does it slicker, and it is so critical to seamlessly integrate with Outlook for LinkedIn’s domain that more work is needed. The most crucial advantage is Xobni’s contextual information. As you move through mail, Xobni provides updated info on the sender without any need for keystrokes or mouse clicks. By contrast, the LinkedIn toolbar has “Search”, where I retype the name and then it just does a vanilla search on LinkedIn with that name. Sorry, but that’s just lame. [...]

By: Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:31:19 +0000

» Microsoft Looking At Buying Xobni »…

TechCrunch reports that Microsoft is in discussions with ……

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:30:34 +0000

The best thing about Xobni is not the search, it’s the list of recent files exchanged with the contact. I use that almost every day

By: Zoli's Blog

Zoli's Blog — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:46:44 +0000

How to Hire Bill Gates to Demo your Startup’s Product…

Actually, I don’t know how, but Xobni apparently does: Bill Gates presented Xobni for Outlook as “the next generation of social networking” (is that why he quit Facebook?) at the Microsoft Office Developers Conference yesterday (video here)….

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:39:01 +0000

It kinda looked obvious after the Bill Gates demo

By: For Evolution

For Evolution — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:07:07 +0000

Le Plug-in Outlook Xobni pour naviguer dans les conversations comme sous Gmail…

Vous utilisez Outlook à votre boulot mais, vous êtes frustré par le système de recherche des mails et de la gestion des conversations ? Et bien la jeune société Xobni (INBOX) à essayer de corriger cela en vous proposant un…

By: Jugo

Jugo — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:15:15 +0000

Again with the TC usage of “surface”… It’s an intransitive verb fer chrissakes. Can’t you speak proper English?

By: Are You Listening?

Are You Listening? — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:01:35 +0000

Haha the Y-Combinator rumor mill at it again. They managed to pull one Rick Roll on all of us with Reddit and now Paul Graham is at it again with Xobni.

MSFT will probably buy it because they do this all the time. It’s not that they couldn’t actually herald the engineering resources to do it, it’s just easier to acquire something that’s out there. That being said, what’s the need for Xobni? Wait, there is none. That’s the signature of Y-Combinator companies - they solve non-existent problems.

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:14:33 +0000

MSFT should acquire Plaxo and integrate it with Xob…

By: fort myers fl photographer

fort myers fl photographer — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:25:36 +0000

I don’t know if you can justify the cost, but it does look like a nice tool. I am always looking for a photograph I sent or a phone number I did not save…

By: Jackson

Jackson — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:13:59 +0000

I just hope it doesn’t suffer the same fate as Lookout.

By: BaffledOnlooker

BaffledOnlooker — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:16:13 +0000

This is ABSURD. This is everything that is wrong with venture investing.

The product has no revenue. No path to revenue. No defensible technology. No massive reach. They are 100% reliant on Microsoft to allow them to continue inter-operating with Outlook.

Someone, please, explain?

None of the arguments above come close to justifying a $20m valuation.

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:15:07 +0000

@21
“maybe they realize no one has written a windows application for years and want to promote their platform, even though the web has *clearly* won already”

I kind of agree with you here. I’m sure MS would want to morph outlook into a product that is not merely a mail client but a gateway to the online social networking portals and such. In fact I can see a faint dotted line between this and the news that Bill Gates will answer questions on Linkedin (which was circulating a few days ago). So even if Xobni do not necessarily add any massive value to Outlook they may want to show the world that developers who create plugins for outlook can potentially earn a decent payout…

By: VentureDeal

VentureDeal — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:50:46 +0000

Maybe MSFT will combine Xobni with the acquisition of a large social network, such as Plaxo…