If you have not already started using xobni yet, take my advice and install it today. It’s a great addition to Outlook and saves me hours time every week.

Xobni offers a new way to organize and search your Outlook email. Xobni creates profiles for each person that emails you. These profiles contain relationship statistics, contact information, social connections, threaded conversations, and shared attachments.

The lastest edition integrates into Linkedin, pulling information from your friends and contacts directly from their LinkedIn profile. Full details of the the Xobni and LinkedIn integration can be found at Xobni blog.

Check out Techcrunch post ‘Xobni: The Super Plugin For Outlook’ for more information on this great little application. You can also see Bill Gates take on Xonbi here. I am a bit puzzled why it Microsoft did’t come with this functionality themselves, but hey at least its here.

If your interested to seeing what I am up to, reading and/or sharing on the web outside of my entries on Sourcing Excellence, the best place to find me is over on Friendfeed.

“FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.”

The team over at Webpage FX have written a post giving a good overview of Friendfeed’s functionality and benefits ‘Friendfeed Explained’. Whilst Duncan Riley @ Techcrunch has also posted an interesting entry explaining why FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter.

My personal page brings together my Twitter feed, Google reader shared feeds, Flickr feed and more http://friendfeed.com/markperera. Additionally I have setup Friendfeed room for Sourcing Excellence ( http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sourcing-excellence ), so people can comment and share their thoughts on the topics covered on Sourcing Excellence.

I look forward to seeing you there!