http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/tags/social/linkedin/email/default.aspxTags: social, linkedin, emailenCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2008/05/05/Xobni-Gets-Social-With-Email.aspxMon, 05 May 2008 15:01:00 GMT1e469e21-c924-44fa-a132-47b5d0a8ad47:5417Pete Prestipino0http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=5417http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2008/05/05/Xobni-Gets-Social-With-Email.aspx#comments<p><b>It&#39;s amazing how much time I spend going through Outlook searching for emails - and it looks like I&#39;m not alone.</b> </p> <p>By 2009, workers are expected to spend 41% of their time managing email. Receiving thousands of emails each week and organizing them efficiently is a task better suited to a machine than it is a person. With the average human brain capable of maintaining only 150 friendships, and with enterprises expected to spend more than $17 billion on email software in the next four years, that&#39;s why I was pleased as could be when I came across <b> <a href="http://www.xobni.com/">Xobni</a></b>, a very &quot;social&quot; plug-in for Outlook which helps users find email conversations, contacts and attachments in a much more fluid, natural and efficient manner. </p> <p>Installation of the plug-in was quick (<i>although it did take a while to index all of the email in my Outlook</i>). Xobni&#39;s features however (powerful email search, threaded conversations, email analytics, quick attachment discovery and phone number extraction) made me a believer.</p> <p> <img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/images/blog/xobni.gif" border="0" height="55" width="150" alt="" /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/aggbug.aspx?PostID=5417" width="1" height="1">socialemailxobnioutlooklinkedin