Xobni: Email Analytics for Outlook (AWESOME)
20 September 2007 at 1:13 am | TechyI have been playing with Xobni for the last couple of days and in 1 word: Awesome.
It’s still in beta, so I know there will be kinks … but … with the path they are following .. into the completely awesome world of email analytics, who cares for a few bugs.
So far, I am impressed that their app hasn’t slowed my Outlook a lot (and I’m on a 3 year old IBM thinkpad x31, WinXP and Outlook 2003.
At a basic level, when you click on an email it gives you a ranking of people you communicate with (based on some mix of incoming and outgoing mails the two of you have exchanged).
Right now, Surabhi’s at #1 (whew!), followed by Piet, Renny and then my Mom. I wish it could show me a ranking style listing!
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Ok, now that my initial excitement’s worn off … what else can I do with this data? I mean, how can I have it figure out things that I should be doing that I am already not (one thing it does … it shows you when was the last time you mailed someone … helps keeping in touch with friends).
But what other possibilities exist out there? Lets find out over the next few weeks!
September 25th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Don’t get used to the software. The day it ranks her as non #1, and you fail to notice it, you will have a hard time explaining why you read my mails before reading hers