17 posts and columns on Xobni

LinkedIn Is Acquiring Contacts Start-Up Rapportive

in Social on February 7 at 1:40 pm PT

Rapportive, which makes a browser plugin that overlays Gmail with contextual information about email contacts, is being acquired by LinkedIn, sources said.
Rapportive

News Byte

Xobni Contact Manager Hits the iPhone

in Mobile on January 24 at 6:15 am PT

Does your mobile address book need an overhaul? Xobni’s Smartr Contacts app became available on the iPhone today, a platform the company had previously neglected while it launched on Outlook, Gmail, Android and BlackBerry. Smartr Contacts aggregates and maintains email and phone information, conversation history and social media presences for each contact. It orders people by relevance, rather than the alphabet.

Want to Organize Your Email? Go for High Thread Count, Not Folders.

in Commerce on January 23 at 12:35 pm PT

It’s Clean Out Your Inbox Week! But hang on — you don’t necessarily want to go folder-crazy.
EmailTrash

Viral Video: This Year, First Round VCs Channel Rebecca Black (Rrrreeaaallly!)

in Media on December 20, 2011 at 9:30 am PT

Oh, dear — Silicon Valley VCs acting like teenage girls. And there’s not even a hot start-up in sight to chase and scream over.
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Mingly Makes Gmail Social With $500K From Idealab

in Social on November 9, 2011 at 3:04 pm PT

Are you one of those people who never forgets a birthday, regularly stays in touch with people and remembers to send out congratulatory gifts when friends go through life changes? Me neither.
Mingly

Exclusive: LinkedIn Has Bought Contact Management Start-Up Connected

in Social on October 5, 2011 at 1:16 pm PT

LinkedIn has acquired Connected, a small contact management start-up that unifies and dynamically updates users’ connections on email, social networks, calendars and phones.
Connected

Xobni Promises New Set of Apps Will Be “Smartr”

in Social on September 27, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

Xobni is trading one slightly awkward but endearing brand for another — Smartr — as it prepares to launch its contact management tools as a set of apps made by itself and other companies.
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Xobni Launches App Market Using OpenSocial

in Social on May 3, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT

Xobni, the email-as-a-platform company, is opening up its Microsoft Outlook sidebar app to other developers. The sidebar will now include a “Gadget Store” with free and paid apps like Evernote, Yammer, Facebook and Salesforce.

Ex-Xobni Guys Now Printing Photos: First Up, Postagram for Instagram

in Social on April 12, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

“A printed photo the is most ubiquitously appreciated physical gift in the world,” according to Sincerely co-founder Matt Brezina, who’s launching a new company today to make it easier to print physical photos from phones.

Voices

Xobni Takes to the Streets and Skies Above Microsoft

in News on April 22, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Xobni’s best customers used to be Microsoft employees. Now the San Francisco startup plans to make a scene at Microsoft’s headquarters to win them back. During the morning commute on Thursday, Xobni plans to advertise its product around Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus with people spinning Xobni signs stationed at entrances to the main thoroughfares of Microsoft headquarters.

Weekend Update 3/20/10–The Broadband Plan Edition

in News, March 20, 2010 at 8:13 pm PT

Xobni Soups Up BlackBerry; No Mac Support

in News, March 17, 2010 at 12:22 pm PT

An App With a Knack for Contacts

in The Mossberg Solution, March 16, 2010 at 3:08 pm PT

First Round Capital Forces Its Start-Ups to Sing for Their Supper (and Your Holiday Card)

in Media, December 9, 2009 at 12:50 pm PT

Accessing Email Without Web Access

in Mossberg’s Mailbox, August 6, 2008 at 6:18 pm PT

Xobni Can Make Good Old Email Even More Useful

in Personal Technology, July 30, 2008 at 6:20 pm PT

TechCrunch40 Day 2, Round 1: Productivity and Web Applications

in News, September 18, 2007 at 10:55 am PT