Comments on: Is Email The Ultimate Social Environment? http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Xobni Co-Founder Adam Smith Leaves http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180761 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:56:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180761 [...] and we quickly found that we shared a lot in common — mostly around the notion of using email inbox as a social networking utility. Over the years, I got to know the two of them very well and about two years ago, I was asked by [...]

]]> By: How the Email Inbox Can Become An App Platform http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180760 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:56:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180760 [...] isn’t a new concept. Om titled a post in 2007, “Is Email the Ultimate Social Environment?” after meeting Xoopit and Xobni, which added things like context and better photo viewing to [...]

]]> By: Gmail to Get Social News Feed: Report « AccessTech News http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180759 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:57:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180759 [...] The feature, which could be announced at a press event tomorrow, would be very much in line with what Google told us it wanted to do to catch up on the social front in 2010: as I wrote last month, “to expose and elicit more of the social network built into the tools that many of us already use.” It also makes a lot of sense, given how central email is to our daily existence and our connections to people. [...]

]]> By: Gmail to Get Social News Feed: Report – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180758 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:35:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180758 [...] The feature, which could be announced at a press event tomorrow, would be very much in line with what Google told us it wanted to do to catch up on the social front in 2010: as I wrote last month, “to expose and elicit more of the social network built into the tools that many of us already use.” It also makes a lot of sense, given how central email is to our daily existence and our connections to people. [...]

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180757 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:47:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180757 Absolutely. Just trying to think of a newer way to come back to this post. Give me a few days and I can come up with something :-)

]]> By: Jimbo C http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180756 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:19:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180756 Om — would it be possible to update your original post? So much has happened in the last 2 years on this topic, and MSFT is set to release Outlook 2010 shortly. I am curious to see whether you think where email and social networks are headed together — or apart.

]]> By: Yahoo Buying Xoopit for $20M? http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180755 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:59:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180755 [...] for Business 2.0 on the challenges of email and how to fix them, Xoopit co-founder Bijan Marashi got in touch with me and well, it didn’t take me long to fall in love with the company’s…: turning the email inbox into a social network by organizing email-attached media (videos, photos) [...]

]]> By: Xobni Gets Another $10 Million, Out of Beta http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180754 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:16:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180754 [...] what recession. In Silicon Valley the funding torrent continues. Xobni, which is building a social email platform by plugging into existing platforms such as Microsoft Outlook raised another $3 million in funding [...]

]]> By: Yahoo Plans to Launch a Mail App Platform - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180753 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:04:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180753 [...] fall, I pointed out that the only way for Yahoo or Google to challenge the social networking incumbents like Facebook [...]

]]> By: Web Worker Daily » Archive Hands On: A Week With Xobni « http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180752 Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180752 [...] up the offering to the general public. Press has seemingly always been good to Xobni, they are a favorite of our parent site GigaOm, and their announcement elicited a lot of buzz, including here on [...]

]]> By: Buzz Meter: Xobni » The Buzz Bin http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180751 Thu, 08 May 2008 13:22:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180751 [...] since I read this article in GigaOm about Xobni, I’ve been excited to try it. It’s finally available to the masses, and it’s a [...]

]]> By: For Xobni, Why It’s A Good Time To Sell - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180750 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:26:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180750 [...] Who knows, this time the price may be right. Bill Gates is one high-profile Xobni beta tester, making it easy for M&A drones to pay up for this company. Xobni’s software uses features of social networking to better analyze your inbox and formulates relationships and other relevant points that help you conquer the chaos called email. I have written about Xobni previously in the context of email as a social environment. [...]

]]> By: Xoopit Will Turn Your Inbox Into a Social Network - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180749 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:43:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180749 [...] $5 million round of funding from Accel Partners and Foundation Capital, is part of a growing number of startups that view the inbox as the ultimate social [...]

]]> By: Elvira Jones » Blog Archive » Are Social Networks Killing Email? http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180748 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:11:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180748 [...] don’t count out email just yet. GigaOm suggests that email could be the "ultimate social environment," less a social network and more a [...]

]]> By: Badi http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180747 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:12:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180747 Yambi Unified Messaging for the Consumer has just been launched. Feel free to apply for a beta on our site: yambi.com
http://www.mundialco.com/unifiedmessaging/2008/01/22/yambi-demo-screenshots/
Te desktop client is not an Outlook plugin, but a complete client that looks like Outlook.

]]> By: Business News Research » Xobni Beta Invites http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180746 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:42:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/20/is-email-the-ultimate-social-environment/#comment-180746 [...] the San Francisco-based email management startup that Om deemed his pick for coolest company at TechCrunch 40, is opening up to several thousand additional beta users today. Xobni’s Insight is an adjunct [...]

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