Xoopit Launches Private Beta of First Application for Webmail to Help People Discover,...

Xoopit Launches Private Beta of First Application for Webmail to Help People
Discover, Organize and Share Rich Media in the Inbox; Also Announces $5
Million 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 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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," said 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 its offerings to the top web
mail systems including Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL and the social networks.

The Xoopit private beta can be accessed at http://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 more than 1 billion around the
world," said Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, Partner at Accel, lead investors in 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 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 is financed by Accel Partners and Foundation Capital along
with a slew of strategic angels.

Editor's Note: Images of Xoopit can be found at http://tinyurl.com/2cpkqa.

SOURCE Xoopit

Miiko Mentz of Xoopit, +1-408-858-7216, miiko@bluesparkpr.com