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Xoopit Launches Private Beta - First Application for Webmail to Help People Discover, Organize and Share Rich Media in the Inbox; Also Announces $5M Series A led by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital

The inbox is the largest untapped social network in the world and has remained relatively unchanged for two decades, until now.

San Francisco, March 31, 2008 — Xoopit released the first product to bring the power of the social web to email by combining the benefits of social networks and media management within email environments. Xoopit finds the pictures, videos, and files buried in webmail's gigabytes of free storage and allows users to share, comment, and post them to their contacts on other social networks and blogs. The product was released today in private beta with initial client support for Google's Gmail and automatically imports shared media from the top photo and video sharing networks such as YouTube, Flickr, Kodak, Shutterfly, and Picasaweb.

"Everyone has tons of pictures, short videos, documents, audio, and data files piling up in their inbox as attachments or as links to sites like YoutTube and Shutterfly," says Bijan Marashi, CEO & Co-Founder of Xoopit. "We got tired of email being about managing messages, so we built Xoopit. It's the first in a new product line dedicated to making the inbox more visual, useful, networked, and fun."

The Xoopit beta is available as a Gmail plugin for FireFox, on iGoogle, and on the web. Over time, the company plans to expand their offerings to the top web mail systems including Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL and the social networks.

You can access the private beta at www.xoopit.com.

"Email was designed 35 years ago to function as a messaging tool. Today, it's become the de facto media sharing tool for 1 billion + consumers around the world," said Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, Partner at Accel, lead investors of top social network Facebook. "Xoopit is about bringing the engagement and discovery of the social web to email."

"We understand that solving the email problem at Internet scale is going to take some serious infrastructure. Xoopit has developed a powerful new personal indexing platform capable of making email systems more useful and connecting the mail systems to the rest of the web," said Charles Moldow, General Partner at Foundation Capital.

About Xoopit

Xoopit finds the pictures, videos, and files buried in webmail's gigabytes of free storage and allows users to share, comment, and post them to their contacts on other social networks and blogs. The product has been released in private beta with initial client support for Google's Gmail and automatically imports shared media from the top photo and video sharing networks such as YouTube, Flickr, Kodak, Shutterfly, and Picasaweb.

Over time, the company plans to expand its offerings to the top webmail systems including Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL and also top social networks.

Xoopit, the Company

Xoopit was founded in 2006 by Bijan Marashi and Jonathan Katzman as the first company dedicated to bringing the power of the social web to the world's email systems. Xoopit has been financed by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital along with a slew of strategic angels.

Company Media Contact

Bijan Marashi
bijan@xoopit.com