A month or so ago, I let you know about Xobni. Spelling “inbox” backwards, Xobni has set out to be a new way to organize and cope with your countless Outlook email messages and contacts.
One of the cool features about Xobni is how fast it performs a people search. However, it has now fleshed out that people search by integrating LinkedIn public profiles. Now if your contacts will display their current employer, job title, link to their LinkedIn profile, and their LinkedIn contact photo.
Xobni has more plans for this feature:
We have plans to extend this feature with more information from LinkedIn that becomes available when you are logged-in to their service. Make sure to verify that your LinkedIn profile and picture are set to “public” so that other Xobni users can see your pretty LinkedIn picture when you send them an email.
I used Xobni for a bit, because I’m a I was a power Outlook user. I had a bit of trouble with the screen real estate it took away from other things, but I admit Xobni is a pretty powerful tool. Now I’m cruising along in Apple’s Mail.app and I would love a version of Xobni to extend this program.
The new version of Xobni also includes Xobni keyboard shortcuts, folder selection, and several performance improvements. The big news, though, is the integration of the LinkedIn API. The application will update automatically if you already have Xobni. If not, you can download it for free.
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