Here’s something interesting — Florian Queze and Quentin Castier just released Instantbird, which is a XUL application wrapped around libpurple, the library behind Pidgin (once GAIM), Adium, Meebo, and others. There are some licensing issues around doing the same in Thunderbird right now, but it’s nice to see that some people are connecting these [...]

I’d like to start collecting information about cool email experiments. To jumpstart the discussion, here are a few of my favorites:

IBM’s Remail project is inspirational.
Ka-Ping Yee has a tendency to come up with cool stuff, from nosy lists in Roundup to thread maps and user-directed screen reading
Andrew Sutherland is doing cool visualization experiments, including [...]