Comments on: Xoopit Makes Your Inbox More Social. Raises $5 Million and Launches Private Beta (Invites)

By: Xoopit Launches Gmail Media Search, We’ve Got 500 Invites

Xoopit Launches Gmail Media Search, We’ve Got 500 Invites — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:00:20 +0000

[...] we noted in our original review, Xoobit goes beyond simply searching through attachments by crawling your inbox for links to media. [...]

By: Xoopit Launches Gmail Media Search, We’ve Got 500 Invites

Xoopit Launches Gmail Media Search, We’ve Got 500 Invites — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:00:20 +0000

[...] we noted in our original review, Xoobit goes beyond simply searching through attachments by crawling your inbox for links to media. [...]

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links for 2008-04-01 « melissa attree — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:36:28 +0000

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By: Xoopit consigue 5M y lanza una beta privada

Xoopit consigue 5M y lanza una beta privada — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:05:28 +0000

[...] compañía Xoopit ha lanzado la beta de su nuevo producto, que hace más social la bandeja de entrada del correo electrónico de los usuarios. Dicho producto [...]

By: WinExtra » Merging your social networks with your inbox

WinExtra » Merging your social networks with your inbox — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:53:06 +0000

[...] you have probably noticed already the news about Xoopit the application that is being billed as the first application for webmail to [...]

By: techmine

techmine — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:01:05 +0000

I liked the results. All my photos are instantly available for sharing/comment. I am not worried about email password, coz you can change it.
I would like to see some filters and more control over the indexing. Like, I don’t want to index my documents/files or I don’t want to index photos that are send from me. I would love to see a section for music as well. If it can find all the music and lets you play with a flash player (like gmail does), it would be awesome.

By: Oren

Oren — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:38:59 +0000

It seems as if you can give xoopit ANY valid gmail login info, but use it on all your accounts. The plugin is native to the browser, not the account, so you can just signup an empty new gmail, plug that info in, but use it on your real account…

By: Jonathan Katzman

Jonathan Katzman — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:58:14 +0000

Hi, this is JK, one of Xoopit’s founders. We’ve seen the comments regarding email passwords and privacy issues. You can think of Xoopit as a mail client, which makes it possible for you to access your mail data. We use industry best practices to secure our service and encrypt your password and have rigorous internal policies on the same.

You can learn more about how we manage your data on our blog:

http://blog.xoopit.com/2008/03.....-mana.html

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:20:02 +0000

How is viewing and sharing you photos within your email make this “social email”????? That headline is so inaccurate. It’s just a firefox addon that helps you share stuff from a central point of your inbox. I agree with most of the commenters above that I don’t want my email attachments indexed. No thank you. You had me all excited that something really innovative was coming out from your headline. So disappointed. Sigh.

By: Another good idea

Another good idea — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:14:07 +0000

@Jason

Social networking stuff are mostly for fun (such as flicr etc). But emails are mostly for serious stuff - including your business conversations etc… it’s your basic communication choke point.

Check out your major email inbox and see what % of your conversations related to business.

That’s the difference, at least to me. (I agree some people do not care any online privacy at all.) There is nothing wrong to ask for passwords to people basic communication choke points.. but it will just make alot people uncomfortable. Making a few thumbnails is hard to justify that. Just my opinions though.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:58:19 +0000

I think whats more likely is facebook giving each user their own inbox with a few gigs and getting even more page views that way.

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:54:57 +0000

Wow…

Service Temporarily Unavailable …

what will happen when everyday 10-20million users will try to login to their account with this firefox plugin and see Service Temporarily Unavailable …

looks like they didn’t do their homework ….

hope they still have some money left and didnt spend it all on marketing ..

By: Another good idea

Another good idea — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:46:06 +0000

Arh, I got a better idea.

Can you guys give us all your accounts and the passwords (including your bank accounts)? We can for sure develop a very cool service (and integrating every piece of data from all of your accounts) and add values to your life.

Folks, converting a few images and building an index are easy. Gaining trust is hard.

By: Mark Cramer

Mark Cramer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:18 +0000

@#3 ACO - They got the money to develop a product that just happens to be delivered as Firefox plugin.

By: jagdip

jagdip — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:16:12 +0000

i do not even tell my wife my password for gmail account (nothing to hide from her though ) .
how will i tell this company. are these guys kidding ?

By: David

David — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:15:29 +0000

The website is already down:

Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at http://www.xoopit.com Port 80

By: David

David — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:15:16 +0000

@#12

If you want your account deleted, you can email support@xoopit.com with your request. They’re being very friendly and reasonable about it, which I do applaud them for.

By: Ely Fall

Ely Fall — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:15:05 +0000

the site is down. at least we know where they can invest half of those funds.

By: Beasley

Beasley — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:14:59 +0000

looks like the Crunch 503′d em…

By: Brent Otterlei

Brent Otterlei — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:10:11 +0000

so i just followed the link…was wary about giving both my email and password to these guys…why do they need my password if this is a plug in to firefox… but seeing that you guys are endorsing them, i did…but when i did i was redirected to a sign-in page that told me my email and address was not right…huh?…did they already fill up the 700 spots?…did they just steal my gmail login info?…hope i just didn’t give a way the farm to these guys…

By: Brij

Brij — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:09:25 +0000

Congratulations to Xoopit team.

There is definitely demand out there for these tools. Though asking password upfront is a big hassle and I am sure Xoopit team is working on making that less initimidating.

At MessageDance we found in our survey that users are less worried about passwords to their social sites (flickr, youtube etc) and extremely sensitive about their email account.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:04:39 +0000

The screenshots look nice. I don’t use gmail but if I did I’d never give up my pw.

By: f

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:04:36 +0000

Absolutely agree with #10.

I’ve uninstalled the plug-in and the toolbar doesn’t appear any more in my inbox, but my info must be somewhere… as the saying goes: curiosity killed the cat (or something like that).

By: WiseMail

WiseMail — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:02:24 +0000

Nice.. need better auth methods…

By: David

David — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:58:52 +0000

I don’t recommend signing up for this.

1. It requires you start off with your email password
2. It stores copies of your mail/attachments on their servers
3. There is no automated way to cancel/delete your account or your data once they’ve grabbed it

Ultimately, there just seems to be no reason for them to have anything on their servers considering the value add to email is to make a few new screens showing photos/files. Makes me very uneasy.