San Francisco-based email startup Xobni (inbox spelled backwards) has launched its public beta phase of its software product which aims to organize Microsoft Outlook. The computer program analyzes all e-mails and associates the ones that it thinks are related. Xobni also parses the messages for various contact information such as phone numbers and addresses.

Xobni's information is mostly displayed in a special sidebar. The software also produces various statistical numbers such as how often you communicate with a person and when. The program has the following main features:

* faster email search
* threaded conversations
* people-oriented navigation
* calculation of your contacts' email habits
* extraction of phone numbers from address book and prior email conversations
* fast attachment discovery
* one-click scheduling
* complex email analytics

The interesting company was founded in 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and relocated the same year to San Francisco. At the core of the company's technology stands its first employee, Gabor Cselle, a Software Engineer from Google. He is currently VP of Engineering.

Also, in February this year, Xobni hired Jeff Bonforte, a Vice President at Yahoo, as their CEO. The aggressive move was followed by a surprising demo by Bill Gates of the company's product at the Office Developer's Conference. The Gates gig has immediately sparked rumors of an imminent Microsoft acquisition, which proved false.

"Xobni analyzes mountains of data and shows you what matters -- your relationships, your communication habits, context around messages -- information trapped in email that's often lost or forgotten," said Matt Brezina, co-founder of Xobni in a statement.