Dear Fizzle Pop

1) Create a site where everyone can bitch about a particular piece of software.
2) Marvel as the product manager finds your site and addresses your concerns (while dismissing others)
3) Profit.

An interesting approach to consumer feedback.

You can't stop email. You can only hope to contain it.

Dealing with email is a problem that will never go away, but some folks out there are trying to ease the pain. Enter Xobni.

Xobni is an Outlook plug-in that’s been generating some buzz lately due to its powerful, time-saving feature set. This little sidebar has some great functionality that makes dealing with a large volume of email much easier.

• Search – Xobni fully indexes all of your emails, allowing you to see search results as you type in criteria. Much faster than Outlook’s search.
  
• Conversations – Instantly see all of the back-and-forth emails with a particular contact on the same subject. No more hunting for “that one email”.


• Attachments – Instantly see any file ever sent to you from a particular contact. Again, no hunting.


• Easy meeting scheduling – One click creates an email with your meeting availability to send to a contact.


• Linked In Support – Linked In information is automatically collected for your contacts.
• Analytics – See detailed information about your email volume.

Xobni is still in beta, but it’s a stable release now and the developers are keen to keep improving it, so expect more features to show up in the future.

The company recently declined a $20 million offer for purchase from Microsoft, so for now, it’s staying an add-on. Word on the street is Xobni-like functionality is already creeping into the next release of Outlook.

To install Xobni, click here and follow the simple instructions.