Microsoft Outlook Inbox; Integrates Yahoo

Xobni, today released a product that integrations with Web services, Yahoo! eMail, Facebook Platform and Hoover's, as well as improvements to its Skype integration. These strategic outlook integrations support and expand on Xobni's June announcement, incorporating key contact information from LinkedIn's massive network of business professionals into the Xobni sidebar.

The integration of Yahoo! eMail is scale implementations using Yahoo! eMail's APIs and makes it easy for Yahoo! users to preview their Yahoo! eMail messages and search their email and contacts from within Outlook for free. With hundreds of millions of users worldwide, Yahoo! Mail is one of the world's most popular Web email services, and now Yahoo! eMail users have a solution to preview their messages from Outlook, along with all the benefits and convenience of Xobni.

"This is a terrific use of our open Yahoo! eMail APIs, and we think desktop Outlook suppot users in the workplace will find great value in being able to preview their Web email from Outlook using the Xobni sidebar. One of our goals in help opening up Yahoo! eMail is to make it even more ubiquitous, so that people can access their Web email from wherever it's most convenient. Ultimately, we think people will become even more engaged with outlook Yahoo! eMail the more easily they can access it," said John Kremer, vice president, Yahoo! eMail.

Each of Xobni's new information help providers are leaders in their respective fields-Yahoo! eMail is one of the most popular Web email help services in the world; Facebook outlook is the largest social network in the world; Hoover's provides the broadest set of proprietary, rich insight into worldwide companies, industries and people; and Skype is the leading global internet communications company.

"As inbound communications volume skyrockets, people outlook are getting hammered with messages from social networks, personal email addresses and other Web services," said Matt Brezina, co-founder of Xobni. "These collaborations with leading Web companies outlook are Xobni's latest outlook efforts toward helping people process relevant information about their contacts, stay informed and connected to important people in their network, and quickly take actions on that information."

Each new service is opt-in and brings valuable features into Xobni's Outlook help product. Icons for each service appear in an easy toggle format within the Xobni sidebar, so users can decide which services they want to use. New capabilities of Xobni's sidebar include:

As proof that people are looking for a solution to email outlook overload, over 1 million people have downloaded Xobni in the 6 months since its public launch. Xobni's integrations with industry leading outlook email data providers are finally pushing email toward the 21st century, which is why Walt Mossberg recently wrote that Xobni makes Outlook "faster and more useful." With Xobni's simple inbox sidebar, 85% of users report spending less time searching for people, contact information, emails and attachments, and more time getting work done.

The Radicati Group, is a outlook email help canada research firm, saying that 210 billion emails are sent every day, and are expecting that by 2012 that number will grow to 419 billion. That match growth means there is overload of information , and xboni is helping to solve this problem.

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