Seriosity tries to solve email spam — with virtual currency

Seriosity tries to solve email spam — with virtual currency

We’ll call Seriosity the quirky company of the year.

The three-year old Palo Alto, Calif. company has been secretive, but now it has launched a new way for corporate employees to manage their email load.

It gives the employees a set amount of virtual currency, called Serio, and they have to spend it order to send email. The more they judge an email to be important, the more currency they use to send it, so that… Continue Reading