What would you say to an add-on for your email client that would track what times you read your emails at, what time your co-workers read their emails from you, the time of day you liked to compose emails, and how long it takes you to reply? And then have all that info given to your boss and co-workers?
Because to me, it sounds a little like 1984. This is what Outlook extension Xobni promises to do. By piggybacking on your email application, Xobni is an investigative, analytical little bugger that makes me kind of nervous (Oy, remember Beacon?). There are certainly useful tools from Xobni, too; when you get an email from a contact, your email history with them will pop up, as well as their contact info and LinkedIn profile. Xobni also stresses that you must opt-in for their service to analyze your email habits.
Still, I'm a little wary of something tracking my every email move. What's your take?
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Way back when email was invented I worked in an office that had an Exchange server. We had this ability, it was nice to ask someone what they thought of the project update and they would be "oh it was great" and you knew that they actually deleted the email without reading it. I get a request for this feature from time to time, but my customers are in a mac environment and there's not a real way to do that seamlessly. I would love to have this for my clients. Love to know if they are reading the important updates that is happening with their computer systems. That way if I send out an email about an upgrade we are doing where they could lose data I would know ahead of time if they didn't read it and give them a call.