Inbox Influence reveals your connections’ connections

Inbox Influence reveals your connections’ connections » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism.

A new tool from the Sunlight Foundation would seem to seek to tweak that paradigm. It’s called Inbox Influence, a Gmail plugin that requires exactly one step: installing it. When an email message arrives — from a company, a political candidate, a PR person, your aunt — you’ll see statistics about that entity’s political connections. The plugin detects names in body text, email addresses, and links.