Bill Gates Demoes Xobni!
Matt February 11th, 2008
Bill Gates demoed Xobni as part of his opening keynote at the Office Developers Conference in San Jose, California today.
See the webcast here. The demo of Xobni occurs 44 minutes into the webcast.
Bill called Xobni “the next generation of social networking.” He credited Xobni as leveraging the data in email to help users better manage their relationships.
Another quote (he actually pronounced Xobni correctly):
“Xobni - it’s actually the word inbox spelled backwards: This is where someone has come into Outlook and decided to add value. “You look over there to the right, that’s their unique display area. They help you understand how you communicate, what groups of people you work with.”
Thanks Bill!
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February 11th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Cool, congrats!
February 11th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Awesome! Now if you guys only had a nice version for Mail on OS X Steve Jobs would be giving you props! (Hint Hint
Keep up the good work.
February 11th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Nice
February 11th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Wow, that is awesome!
You guys are rock stars!
February 12th, 2008 at 2:06 am
thats awesome.. congrats!
February 12th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Interesting !
Even i was having invite access, i am not using Outlook. !
congrats and kudos,
-raxit
February 12th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
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February 14th, 2008 at 8:34 am
To Adam, Matt and all the crew; congratulations on Xobni’s notice by Bill Gates…I think all your hard work will indeed pay off, and kudos from men such as Gates can mean nothing but good things for your future. HDS
February 14th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Very cool guys, congrats! BTW, I shared this link in pulse and noticed your blog title really buries the actual title of the post (it’s “Xobni: take back your inbox » Blog Archive » Bill Gates Demoes Xobni!”). So the actual title gets chopped off (ditto in most browser UI). I would suggest reversing the order of the fields so the specific blog post title is first and then you say “Xobni: take back your inbox” at the end.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
@Joseph, thank you for the feedback. I have made the changes you suggest. Cheers!
February 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
[...] Xobni launched at TechCrunch40 (read our review). It is a 14-person YCombinator startup that raised a $4.2 million Series A last year from Atomico Investments, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Ron Conway’s Baseline Ventures. The VP of engineering, Gabor Cselle, worked on Gmail and did his Masters thesis on inbox organization (I’m not joking). Xobni offers a plug-in for Outlook that helps you sort through your inbox. Click on a person, and you can see all your threaded conversations with them, as well as any attachments they may have sent in the past. “It makes email, in general, work the way your brain does,” says Bonforte. Bill Gates is also a fan. [...]
February 15th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
You are welcome, Matt!
Xobni is super cool. This is one more Microsoft inovation^H^H^H, I mean… I see Jeff is your new CEO, I just hope you guys will charge less than what we offered for yahoo.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
[...] エンジニアリング部門VPのGabor Cselleは元Gmail担当者で、修士号の卒論は受信箱整理法がテーマ（冗談ではなくマジで）。 Xobniでは受信箱の整理を支援するOutlook対応プラグインを出している。人名をクリックすると、その人と交わしたやり取りのスレッドが全部見れるほか、過去その人から送られてきた添付も丸ごと見ることができる。「脳の働き方そのまんまに一般のメールも働くようにする製品ですね」とBonforte。因みにビル・ゲイツもXobniのファンだ。 [...]
February 16th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Great Guys… keep going good work…
Waiting for your first release..
February 16th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
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March 24th, 2008 at 4:50 am
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March 24th, 2008 at 4:55 am
[...] is a Outlook add-in that even Bill Gates loves. What it does is comb through all the emails you have ever sent and received, and puts the [...]
May 5th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Cool endorsement, even cooler product. Great job!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
How much cash did Vinod throw at this shit this time?
May 6th, 2008 at 8:37 am
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May 6th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
[...] I can say is that I reckon Xobni is pretty cool. It seems I’m not alone as Bill Gates demoed the product in his keynote at the 2008 Office Developers Conference and Xobni was selected for Microsoft’s Startup Accelerator Program but the founders are [...]
May 7th, 2008 at 7:16 am
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May 9th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Link to webcast seems to be broken.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:07 am
Я тоже иногда такое замечал, но как-то раньше не придавала этому никакого значения.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Bill Gates Demoes Xobni!
December 1st, 2008 at 8:53 am
[...] quantity and frequency of e-mail I send to and receive from people. Apparently, Bil Gates got all warm and fuzzy about Xobni, terming it “the next generation of social networking.” Gates may want to buy Xobni [...]
December 1st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
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