(Update: Go here, to download Xobni Insight) It's not every day a Penn State co-founded start-up is mentioned by Bill Gates. Now, that same company, Xobni (zob-nee) founded by PSU '03 Electrical Engineering (and Schreyers) alumnus Matt Brezina, whose email capabilities Gates called "the future of social networking", is featured in one of the top publications in the United States -- the New York Times. Xobni is featured in today's ...

Hello fellow IST and SRA junkies, I hope you're all doing well on this wonderful April afternoon. I know many of you have probably heard the term "social graph" tossed around. An Exeter-alum, Harvard drop-out popularized the term, although who's to say who actually came up with it? You might know him, his friends call him Zuck, a bit more than four years ago, he started a small social website ...

I recently came across a startup called Xobni that and found it quite interesting. Xobni, inbox spelled backwards, is an Outlook plug-in that radically changes to the way people interact with their email. Xobni is currently in beta, but if you put a link to their website in your blog or email five friends and trick them into registering, the company promises to give you a spot on ...