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Xobni Launches First Paid Service to Increase Workplace and Social Efficiency

Posted on: Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 07:00 CDT

SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Xobni, the popular Outlook search and relationship plug-in, is continuing its efforts to tackle information and relationship overload with Xobni Plus, a new release that adds powerful advanced search capabilities to its popular product. Xobni Plus users will be able to find information in Microsoft Outlook faster and more easily than ever before. Xobni Plus is the company's first paid service and expands upon the previous success of the Xobni 1.0 product series, which surpassed two million downloads in its first year of availability. People can upgrade to Xobni Plus for $29.95 at http://www.xobni.com/order.

The success of email as the primary tool for business in the last 20 years has come with a significant cost for workers and companies: information overload. According to Basex, a knowledge economy research firm, a typical worker will receive 93 e-mails, dozens of instant messages, multiple text messages, plus several phone calls on a daily basis by 2010. This deluge of communication activity, along with activity from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, makes it next to impossible for people to manage professional and social relationships or find information in an efficient way. Information overload cost the U.S. economy more than $900 billion last year.

"The amount of information and number of relationships people have to manage is spiraling out of control and it's having serious repercussions on workplace productivity," said Jonathan Spira, Basex CEO and chief analyst. "Tools such as Xobni Plus have the potential to increase an individual's efficiency and effectiveness by organizing information in a more natural manner."

Xobni helps its customers take back the overloaded inbox. And the new Xobni Plus is the company's most powerful product yet, making it by far the most advanced and complete relationship management service available for Microsoft Outlook. Customers can instantly find critical information and contact data buried deep in the inbox, as well as key attachments.

New features specific to Xobni Plus include: an advanced search query builder, the ability to search within conversations and networks, support for phrases and Boolean queries, Xobni Rank-powered AutoSuggest, advanced conversation and network filtering, and more. These features are based on customer requests and provide valuable resources to enterprises and consumers alike.

"Our mission is to help people find information in their inbox and manage relationships that exist there," said Jeff Bonforte, Xobni CEO. "Xobni Plus delivers powerful features to users so they can spend less time searching and more time doing."

Pricing and Availability

Xobni Plus can be purchased for a one-time fee of $29.95. It requires the newest version of Xobni (1.8), which has also been released today as a free download. Xobni 1.8 includes lightning-fast people and attachment search, automatic contact profiles, a "threaded" view of email conversations, analytics and content integration with leading online services like Yahoo! Mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Skype.

Xobni Free and Xobni Plus are available for immediate download at www.xobni.com.

For additional details on the topic of information overload visit www.basex.com/io.

About Xobni

Xobni is a San Francisco startup that shifts the focus of your email from one-by-one messages to the valuable relationships they reveal. Xobni is a relationship management tool that offers lightning fast search and organization of your inbox. The company was founded in the spring of 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina, launched to private beta in September 2007 and opened to the public in May 2008. Xobni is funded by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Cisco Systems, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Atomico Investments, BlackBerry Partners Fund and others. For more information, go to xobni.com.

Press Contact: Paul Loeffler paul@sutherlandgold.com (510) 593-6765

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