Robin Majumdar 2.0

Hmmm… I’m just trying to check some mail over lunch and… whaddya know:

I suppose bay0-lc2-033 is suffering from a bit of server indigestion.

Quick post during lunch (Moussaka and pita…)

Well I was in the private beta for Xobni for Outlook a while back. I found it quite unstable running on Outlook 2007 connected to an Exchange 2003 corporate network, but I’m guessing that now that the public version is available it’ll be a bit more refined and better behaved.

Xobni is an extremely interesting an invaluable add-on for Outlook that allows a user to see the social graph associated with their Outlook contacts. Ill definitely be testing it once again, but using a standard POP/SMTP email server rather than an Exchange server to start off…

Matt Brezina, cofounder of Xobni, sent out this note to all the private beta testers confirming the public release:

—–Original Message—–
From: Matt Brezina [mailto:info@xobni.com]
Sent: May 5, 2008 12:57 PM
To: *******@*******
Subject: Xobni for Outlook Now Available

Thank you for your patience during Xobni’s invite-only beta
period. We’re pleased to announce that beginning today everyone
can instantly download Xobni to organize and search their Outlook
email.

Download Xobni for FREE here: http://www.xobni.com/download

You can read more about Xobni’s public launch in today’s
New York Times here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/technology/05xobni.html

We look forward to receiving your feedback as we continue to work
to improve Xobni and the overall Outlook experience.

Thanks!

Matt Brezina
Cofounder

HP has a pretty tasty promotion running right now with $349 on the HP Pavilion dv9700t notebook - this is a great laptop (I’ve handled it in store on a few occasions) and yes, this coming from a long time fan of Dell - yes I still love Dell, but it’s been a love-hate relationship with their business notebook machines.

The dv9700t is one of those really well-built and functional notebooks, a few of the things I like:
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Now I wish I would have (carefully) listened to his words a bit more attentively back in ‘94.

Well, Bill has always loved touch computing and is probably the singular reason why Microsoft Windows XP Tablet XP has remained as an active Microsoft SKU and overall product offering on devices such as the Dell, Toshiba, HP and IBM tablet PCs.

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