LinkedIn has announced their integration into Xobni, an Outlook plugin that provides a people and attachment search function, contact profiles, and a threaded view of email conversations in the sidebar of your inbox.
The partnership with allow for key contact information and profile pictures to be imported from LinkedIn’s large network of business professionals.
“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.”
The partnership is big news for San Francisco startup Xobni, who launched publicly back in May.
“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.”
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July 28th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
What is backwards about it?
July 28th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Okay – I see, it’s a pathetic name for a company. Thanks for the brainteaser.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I’ve been using Xobni for a couple months and really like it. It’s even quicker than Google Desktop for searching through past emails and it puts search results in a useful context. It’s a time saver for sure. Having too many Outlook plugins does make launching and closing outlook slow and cumbersome, but I like to blame Microsoft for that. The LinkedIn integration has been there since I’ve been using it and it is a very cool integration. Two thumbs up!