Xobni launches public beta of Outlook email add-on

Xobni is one of those services that you kind of have to see to understand its value, which is why we’ve included the promotional video above. But in a nutshell, it’s a Microsoft Outlook add-on that gives you detailed information about the people you email most often and help you organize your communications.

The program adds a sidebar to Outlook and creates a profile for people you communicate with by pulling information from your email messages even if you haven’t created a contact profile in Outlook. Here are a few of the things Xobni can show you:

• The phone numbers of people you email are automatically extracted from messages
• You can see a graph of the times of day when a contact typically emails you, so you will know if they’re less likely to respond to a message after business hours
• Xobni automatically displays all attachments a contact has sent you
• See statistics about your contacts, easily find the people you email the most often, and identify contacts you’ve lost touch with

Xobni has been available as a private beta for a few months now, but this morning the company took down the private sign and opened the beta up to everyone who wants to download and install the utility. Well, everyone who uses Windows and Outlook anyway.