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"Xoopit is one of those really useful services that makes your life easier and your email inbox more social.  The Xoopit Gmail plugin scours your email account to find all of the media that is going in and out of your box, including photos, videos and files.\nToday, Xoopit takes things a step further by making this content searchable from within Gmail.  Given that Xoopit, which is still in private beta, only supports Gmail for now, it was beyond necessary that Xoopit provide search functions for its plug-in, as a great deal of activity occurs around the search bar for regular Gmail use.  This natural extension for any Gmail plugin, let alone one that sniffs out all your mail attachments, truly makes the overall user experience that much better.\n\nPerhaps I send and receive a few more files than the average Gmail user, but this doesn't diminish Xoopit's usefulness to all users.  If you're a fan of Yahoo Mail's search functionality, which auto-filters results with separate sections (and thumbnails) for media,  then you'll be able to appreciate what Xoopit has to offer.\nBeyond a search and filter tool for your emailed media, Xoopit does layer in some social interaction.  There are options to attach comments to media, which is sent as a reply to the original sender, and posting capabilities to your Facebook account or directly to your own blog. Xoopit really is a social media-sharing tool that works directly in your email client.\nYet another contender to some of the larger goals of browsers like Flock and email clients like Yahoo and Gmail, I think tools like Xoopit enhance user experience and browser and email clients in the end\u2014or until Google offers similar media-filtering through Gmail Labs.\nIf you'd like to try Xoopit out for yourself, click here for invites for Mashable readers.\nXoopit"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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