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Xobni secret project leaked

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41 pointsbrezina19 comments

Amusing that the leak comes with invite codes, I can see Xobni was really annoyed about it :P

Just trying to make lemonade out of lemons.

What this really means is that, regardless of which email service you actually use, Xobni will really be your email hub. They'll have your contacts, attachments, and conversations from all your accounts. I presume Gmail and hotmail releases are in the pipeline too.

Hats off to Xobni, for expanding from the analytics side to being an hub for all email activity.

Looks like someone listened to Arrington at startup school :)

Can't wait for the Gmail leak.

Agreed... I just can't get into this companies products because they keep working with services I don't use... Dang.

Google is doing mail!?>!?!1?!111!!!

This is sick.

How are they doing this? There's no API for Yahoo mail is there? Are they just monitoring HTTP requests (post).

There is actually.

Yahoo Mail Web Services: http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/

IE-only... I understand the motivation behind it and take my hat off to their pains (I did lots of IE BHOs/Sidebars in the past - what a miserable job to have), but don't they have to tackle early adopters first? Even among business users, those who'll most likely to discover Xobni are advanced enough to use FF/Safari, just my $0.02.

it is not a product, just a prototype.

exists ⇒ ¬ie-only

I think that's the only way I can put it without getting into trouble :)

You sure that wasn't leaked "on purpose"?

Given that Matt Brezina submitted this, I would say 100% yes.

or maybe i just read techcrunch and like posting interesting stories to my favorite news aggregator news.yc The plot thickins....

It is plausible that this wasn't an intentional leak, but it's awfully conveniently timed with the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. This would lose a lot of the buzz if Microsoft-Yahoo had already gone through.

looks cool... would be even cooler if the xobni guys worked at one of these big companies and could fully integrate their ideas instead of hacking together ie addons

somebody buy these guys please

>> ... would be even cooler if the xobni guys worked at one of these big companies and could fully integrate their ideas instead of ...

Unlikely. It because they are a small bunch that they have the flexibility and drive to crank out things so fast. Once they are part of BigCo, the risk is that they might end up as a milestone on the roadmap to Outlook 2010.

Ack, not a good place to be. On a roadmap. LOL

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