Where have I seen that before?
Victor Agreda Jr. in a piece for TUAW reports from TechCrunch Disrupt that Sparrow, the email client with a “unique” interface, will be adding support for other services. Facebook Connect, LinkedIn, and even Twitter are on the list.
Sparrow promises some future Twitter and LinkedIn integration. Clearly Sparrow isn’t just a Gmail client, it is becoming a powerful messaging and context platform in itself.
This is great news, Sparrow really is a great email client. Anything that can help me avoid using the FaceBook and Google web apps is a step in the right direction.
And for some reason that UI just screams “twitter client” to me. Where have I seen that before? I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Update: I wanted to make it clear that I don’t think the Sparrow guys are doing this without permission. My guess is that the similarities to Tweetie are entirely intentional and encouraged. I just thought that the Tweetie UI completing the full circle back to Twitter was interesting, if not a teensy bit ironic. The current state of the Twitter API power plays, acquisitions, and general crazy only makes it more fun to watch.
