Bill Gates demoed Xobni as part of his opening keynote at the Office Developers Conference in San Jose, California today.
See the webcast here. The demo of Xobni occurs 44 minutes into the webcast.
Bill called Xobni “the next generation of social networking.” He credited Xobni as leveraging the data in email to help users better manage their relationships.
Another quote (he actually pronounced Xobni correctly):
“Xobni – it’s actually the word inbox spelled backwards: This is where someone has come into Outlook and decided to add value. “You look over there to the right, that’s their unique display area. They help you understand how you communicate, what groups of people you work with.”
Thanks Bill!
Cool, congrats!
Awesome! Now if you guys only had a nice version for Mail on OS X Steve Jobs would be giving you props! (Hint Hint
Keep up the good work.
Nice
Wow, that is awesome!
You guys are rock stars!
thats awesome.. congrats!
Interesting !
Even i was having invite access, i am not using Outlook. !
congrats and kudos,
-raxit
To Adam, Matt and all the crew; congratulations on Xobni’s notice by Bill Gates…I think all your hard work will indeed pay off, and kudos from men such as Gates can mean nothing but good things for your future. HDS
Very cool guys, congrats! BTW, I shared this link in pulse and noticed your blog title really buries the actual title of the post (it’s “Xobni: take back your inbox » Blog Archive » Bill Gates Demoes Xobni!”). So the actual title gets chopped off (ditto in most browser UI). I would suggest reversing the order of the fields so the specific blog post title is first and then you say “Xobni: take back your inbox” at the end.
@Joseph, thank you for the feedback. I have made the changes you suggest. Cheers!
You are welcome, Matt!
Xobni is super cool. This is one more Microsoft inovation^H^H^H, I mean… I see Jeff is your new CEO, I just hope you guys will charge less than what we offered for yahoo.
Great Guys… keep going good work…
Waiting for your first release..
Cool endorsement, even cooler product. Great job!
How much cash did Vinod throw at this shit this time?
Link to webcast seems to be broken.
Я тоже иногда такое замечал, но как-то раньше не придавала этому никакого значения.
Bill Gates Demoes Xobni!
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hey, they’ve added a bunch new links to the MS website your link pointed at here.
the xobni mention is in the Feb 11th 2008 MS Office Developer Conference, scroll down a bit.