Awhile back I had found out about Xobni, a 3rd party Outlook tool which helps you organize, manage and make better use of your email and contacts. The features that Xobni added were very useful and sorely lacking in Outlook.

The challenge I saw with the first version I tried was that it seemed to significantly slow down the processing and open and closing of Outlook.
The new version I’ve been playing with now seems to be going a bit faster and they’ve continued to add new features. They used to only connect with LinkedIn to find out more information …read more

I’ve written about Xobni, the 3rd party Outlook search plug-in, a few different times on the this here website (here, here, and here). They’ve now released version 1.4 and have addressed some speed issues that a number of people mentioned in comments on my post.
The other nice thing they’ve added is the ability to immediately show LinkedIn profile information for anyone you receive an e-mail from. VERY NICE! I’ve already used it to connect with a few more people on the LinkedIn site that I didn’t realize were users.
One more feature worth mentioning is that you can now specifically …read more