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by greatapps 6626 days ago
Dear All, as the originator of the blog post that has sparked this thread may I begin by apologising for my sloppy spelling errors on the post, which I've corrected and thanks for highlighting them. However, to correct some of the misunderstandings and prejudices of other contributors to this thread

- I was testing the add-in using BUSINESS email and sadly have too many attachments on incoming emails from people who don't use online collaboration services.

- I've never tended to use an email inbox to store documents, preferring windows file folders instead. Hence the attachments get saved off on receipt. Personally I always found Outlook quite flaky as a file storage system and would also hate to rely on remembering who sent which document.

- I had to test Xobni on a family desktop as I've migrated away from Outlook for all my work activities and Xobni only works in Outlook. Why pay licence fees when you can use identical services online for free and access them from anywhere? Hence, I simply downloaded business emails onto the home machine to test over a couple of weeks.

- Google desktop search is what I use to find anything on a PC, albeit most of my docs get stored in the "cloud" these days. Hence, Xobni "search", which is restricted to Outlook content, was superfluous.

- As for the photo comments, sadly it's the face I was born with and the photo was taken by Ian Forrestor of BBC Backstage fame at the London BBC Backstage & Geek party in 2006. That my opinion is diminished coz you don't like my picture...........wow, tough crowd

- Oddly enough, I was writing as a past Xobni user and of my experience of the product - my comments had nothing to do with being an investor.

- I'm delighted that some people could derive use from this product. Evidently we have considerably different needs or have settled on alternate solutions.

1 comments

I regret that you've had this experience here. For some of us, the success of startups is quite understandably an emotional issue, though that doesn't excuse bad behavior like insulting your photo.

For the most part though, we primarily value respectful rational discussion and I apologize again for catching some of us on a bad day.

Ditto.

One of the things I noticed at Startup School was that people were so busy talking about substance (hacking, business, etc.), that there was little time for fluff.

In any large group there are outliers. You found a few.

OTOH, I noticed you referred to us as "groupies" on your blog, but omitted that sentence in this reply. I'm guessing you knew it would be inflammatory here.

Nerds. Geeks. Weirdos. Bipolar obsessive compulsive basket cases. Fine.

But groupies? (Throws pocket protector at pg on stage.)

Yeah, I'm not a groupie. pg has said time and again how he doesn't want us to be groupies and I don't want to disappoint pg!