Xobni Integrates With LinkedIn to Provide Instant Contact Information for Outlook

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080626/LATH029)

Though Xobni launched its first public product just 45 days ago, this is a significant step for the young startup and a notable improvement to the already powerful and well-received Outlook plug-in. This integration also further validates the power of LinkedIn's industry leading business network and is an example of the increasingly critical role it plays in the daily lives of business professionals.

By leveraging the public profiles of LinkedIn users, Xobni provides important context and utility for the inbox, particularly for those who receive emails from many new contacts on a regular basis. Additionally, for those times when you can't put a face to a name, the profile photo is a great reminder and makes those first face-to-face meetings much less awkward.

"We all use LinkedIn to improve and grow our professional networks. Now Xobni automatically brings key contact information instantly to your inbox, where it is incredibly valuable," said Matt Brezina, co-founder of Xobni. "Integrating with LinkedIn is our first move to bring information from the Internet about people and companies right to Outlook, and we think overloaded professionals are going to love it."

Professionals are calling for relief from their over-taxed inboxes; Xobni has come to the rescue, which is why PC World just called Xobni, "the must have plug-in for people that live in Outlook." With Xobni's simple inbox sidebar, Outlook users waste significantly less time searching for people, contact information, emails and attachments, and more time getting work done. Integrating LinkedIn's rich knowledgebase of professional information with Xobni's sidebar for Outlook is an important step in helping the hundreds of thousands of Xobni users get the information they want, when they need it.

"Outlook is a key application for millions of LinkedIn members," said Scott Roberts, senior director of Business Development at LinkedIn. "The addition of LinkedIn profile information into the sidebar in Outlook will make Xobni even more useful for overloaded professionals."

The Radicati Group, an email research firm, estimates that 210 billion emails are sent every day, and predicts that by 2012 that number will grow to 419 billion. This enormous growth in email volume leads to substantial information overload, exactly the problem Xobni is helping people combat.

To download Xobni, go to www.xobni.com.

About Xobni

Xobni is aSan Francisco startup that shifts the focus of your email from one-by-one messages to the valuable relationships they reveal. Xobni offers lightning fast search and organization of your inbox. The company was founded in the spring of 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina who both dropped out of grad school to pursue Xobni full time. Xobni launched to private beta in September 2007 and opened to the public in May 2008. Xobni is funded by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Atomico Investments and others. For more information, go to www.xobni.com.

    Press Contact:
    Evan Solomon
    evan@sutherlandgold.com
    (415) 683-1179

SOURCE Xobni

Copyright © 2008, PRNewswire
Copyright © 2008, NewsBlaze, Daily News

Tags: ,CPR,MLM,PDT,CA-Xobni-LinkedIn

   _   _

           

Is your favorite bookmark site missing? Ask for it.