It’s been just one month since email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni executives were showing off the app at a Mobile Meetup in San Francisco last night, and the screenshot above found its way into my inbox (which is “xobni” spelled backwards, you know).
The app was working, and could be released sometime this summer, according to my source. The photo above shows the app on a Blackberry Bold, and appears to be showing off its contact search functionality. You type in a few letters, and it returns the contact information for every match in your inbox (even people who you haven’t necessarily added to your address book yet). I wonder what else it can do.
Xobni, which is a plug-in for Outlook that incorporates data from various social networks, currently does not have a mobile client. But the company has hired a small team of engineers to work on mobile apps, with Blackberry being the first device to get one.
Not only is there the connection with the Blackberry Partners Fund, but I’ve been told in the past that there is about 50 percent overlap between Xobni users and Blackberry owners. (There must be an Outlook-Blackberry mental axis out there). So it makes sense to go after the Blackberry first. But the startup cannot afford to ignore the iPhone. Can it?
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I guess from these 10 millions 9.5 go to marketing?
“You type in a few letters, and it returns all of your contacts that start with those letters.” Wow!
haha, i’m with you!
Not really sure what it will do for my inbox..hopefully render HTML email properly. Looks like a Bold to me though (trackball)..
It will slow down your email experience for sure.
That’s a BB Bold, not a Storm. Storm is touch screen.
leaked pic? like who cares?
Nice article.
as long as its not heavy like the desktop app, it could be cool.
I’ve had ‘Xobni’ for a few months now, so far it’s been ’sselesu’.
+1 — email is definitely broken for me, but Xobni did not do the trick. Xobni is kind of like a band-aid that falls off after a few hours. IMHO rather then extending its reach to various platforms it should go back to the basics and try and build a useful product.
the visual email thing could be cool – show me an FB pic next to the senders email, or a missed call, etc.
This site could be worth $2 billion dollars based on the huge growth of the blackberry. No recession in web 2.0 http://iamned.com/blog/
It’d be great to get Xobni-like functionality into gmail. Google will never do it (wants to build its own social graph) but until a critical mass has public google profiles this would be incredibly useful.
In the mean time I’d take a Xobni iPhone app for sure though…
here are some more screenshots from that night: http://twitpic.com/4bbzb
If this can really (and in the background) bring selected social network data together to enhance my email ad reader accounts, that would be truly awesome (as long as my Mafia Wars enemies can’t GPS my real location….)
I have to say it works pretty well!!!
I like the idea of seeing to whom I have sent the most emails….
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I wonder what else it can do?
While you are contemplating, imagine if that contact list came to live. Consider accessing your mobile address book after searching your contact list with Xobni. Easily add these to your mobile address book, so you can begin to share deep presence – dynamic status updates that taps into the Smartphone—as well as calendar applications, instant messaging, social networks and location-based services—with the contacts stored on your phone’s address book. Enables you to make deeper connections with people in your contact list.
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it seems that Xobni search app can make us search search and organize more effectively. when we can download it?
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i dont know why but i dont like blackberry
it can works pretty well but i can not be better than nokia either apple..
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the visual email thing could be cool – show me an FB pic next to the senders email, or a missed call, etc.
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Xobni Is very useful for people will large number of contacts .
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as long as its not heavy like the desktop app, it could be cool.
+1 — email is definitely broken for me, but Xobni did not do the trick. Xobni is kind of like a band-aid that falls off after a few hours. IMHO rather then extending its reach to various platforms it should go back to the basics and try and build a useful product.
very cool
I like the idea of seeing to whom I have sent the most emails….
thanks bro