Xobni launches “email me instead” on Facebook

picture-3.pngXobni, a company working in stealth mode with the intriguing claim “we are going to increase your email happiness factor by 98%,” may have done so for Facebook users.

“Email me instead” allows you to send Facebook messages directly to people’s inboxes, saving the extra step of having to go into Facebook in order to read them.

picture-4.pngThe company has more here.

Xobni (”inbox” spelled backwards) provides data on things like how much time you spend on email, how long it takes you to respond and what times during the day have the most important emails coming in (a little earlier coverage here).

The San Francisco, Calif. company has received funding from Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, and a group of angel investors.

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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He writes and edits stories about lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a now-failed startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers.