Sparrow 1.2 Is The World’s First Social Email Client
May 25, 2011 at 12:14 PM EDT
In four months simple Mac mail client Sparrow has been downloaded over 300K times, has raised $250K in funding from luminaries like Dave Morin and from Tweetie creator Loren Brichter. "We're not adding social layers mail for the sake of it," says CEO Dom Leca. The basic idea is pulling contextual information from your social network that is relevant to the users, and Leca is working on pulling in data for LinkedIn and Twitter.
