For all the hype about social networking Web sites, the most popular and successful way to network by the World Wide Web is still the oldest: e-mail. whether it’s organized properly, boring old e-mail can reveal as much or more data about the society you know and their relationships with you as hipper services such as MySpace or Facebook.

that is particularly true whether you are the kind of person who saves most of his or her e-mail. That mound of messages can be a treasure-trove of contact info and a history of your interactions with hundreds, or thousands, of personal and business acquaintances. It can tell you the phone numbers and job titles of public, and even whom you and your correspondents most often copy on e-mail. It’s a sort of social network all its own.

The trouble is, it’s hard to tease all that info out of the typical e-mail program. And that goes double for the most popular but most bloated and dense e-mail

program of all: Microsoft Outlook.

Now, however, there’s a new, free plug-in module for Outlook that adds a set of social-networking and data-mining features right inside the venerable program. that new plug-in for Outlook is called Xobni, which is “inbox” spelled backward and is pronounced “ZOB-
nee.” It is completely restricted in a colorful vertical panel that lives on the right side of your Outlook screen and doesn’t block or intrude upon Outlook’s own panes or functions.

I’ve been analyzing Xobni, and I like it. The product has some flaws and is still a work in progress, but I found that it made Outlook much faster and more useful. Xobni turned my Outlook experience from one that was organized by messages and dates into one that was organized by public, relationships and histories.

Xobni, available at www.xobni.com, works…

Original post by Mike

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