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Xoopit Launches Gmail Media Search - Turns the Inbox into a Social Media Browser and Social Network

New Media Search for Gmail feature enables users to find and share photos, videos, and files without the hassle of digging through email messages.

San Francisco, June 18, 2008 — Xoopit, the first product to bring the power of the social web to webmail by combining the benefits of social networks and media management within email, today released a new Media Search feature for Gmail.

The company is offering limited invitations for its private beta at www.xoopit.com.

Traditionally, search within Gmail looks through the text contained within messages. Now with Xoopit, users will see people, files, pictures, and other forms of media presented to the right of Gmail's message search results. Xoopit's Personal Indexing technology supplements generic search by crawling media shared via email as links from across the social web. Users can browse photos from Flickr, Picasa, Kodak, Shutterfly, and share them via email or post them to their favorite social sites like Facebook or blogs — all from within the inbox.

The company is initially focusing on Gmail and iGoogle. Users can also go to www.xoopit.com to view their media outside of Gmail using Xoopit's new search tool. The product represents a new genre of search, creating an online social media browser that turbo charges the formerly localized search experience for the large webmail services as well as the social web to help people discover, organize, and share media.

In the first 24 hours of the company's private beta launch, Xoopit's powerful media search technology indexed one million pictures based on an initial set of a few thousand people. The company has a deep roadmap and will continue to roll out exciting new solutions for additional platforms, creating a personal media index for everyone who uses and shares media in email, on the Web, and on social networks.

Xoopit creates an inbox social network

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