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If I was the xobni guys...

I would make email a platform; as in, make it easy to develop apps for e-mail.

Like To-do lists, contact lists, crm's, etc...

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Which is exactly what IBM Lotus Notes/Domino has been since 1989.

> Which is exactly what IBM Lotus Notes/Domino has been since 1989.

No, like gmail, yahoo & hotmail.

Those are applications, not platforms. Platforms are intended to make it easy for independant developers to build value-added applications. For example: MySQL, MS Office, Common Lisp, Amazon EC2, etc.

Yes, and I was saying that xobni should build out a platform for developers to create VALUE ADDING applications to gmail, yahoo & hotmail, like To-do lists, contact lists, crm's, etc...

Kind of like how facebook is a platform...

It's generally unwise to a build a platform on top of something controlled by third party. Any little change that third party makes is likely to break your platform.

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