Session five as follows, including our live notes. Commentary by Mark Hendrickson and Duncan Riley.  Xobni Xobni products aim to improve the way users organize, search and navigate their email. Xobni creates an information profile for each person a user communicates with, and provides historical information that is relevant to what users are working on. Xobni displays contact information, threaded conversations, attachments, related people, email usage statistics, and information from the web. Xobni creates a profile of all the interactions you have with your contacts. It appears to be a plugin for your email client – sits on the right-hand side of the client as you browse your email. Gives context to each message that you view; you can browse your messaging history with people, see their portrait, look at connected people (social networking), import calendar openings into email text, search your email by people and keywords. Xobni automatically extracts phone and email contacts from email messages. You can also view upcoming appointments, to-do items, and a “stay in touch” area (a list of people who used to email you but haven’t in awhile – the “ex-girlfriend” feature). Currently available for Microsoft Outlook, others soon. Main points: view threaded conversations, find attachments, use email’s social network, and search email and people. Several email accounts will be supported in 2008. Orgoo Orgoo offers a web based “personal communications cockpit” that is a one stop site for email accounts, IM accounts, video chat, video mail, SMS and voice. Orgoo is free, requires no downloads, and can be accessed from any web browser or mobile phone. Starts by asking how many people have more than one email and IM account. In addition to these, we have chat, SMS, etc. Problem: no way to access and organize all these conversations in one location. With Orgoo, you get all your email, IM, chat, and SMS more integrated into single location available through any web browser or mobile device. You can send video to any of your email contacts, send messages from any of your email accounts, send IM messages in the same work area, hold a video chat session (public or private). You can also share files with each other and invite people into chat sessions using IM or email. Aggregate all of your IM accounts into one (like Meebo apparently). You can take IM conversations and drop them into emails easily to continue conversations → Read More