The point of PowerInbox is to give your email inbox more functionality so that you don’t always have to leave it to do things like comment or tweet. And today the company announced a cure for one of my least favorite inbox diversions: LinkedIn Connections.

As the video shows, PowerInbox users can now not only accept LinkedIn connections directly through their email, but also view mutual connections.

The company also unveiled “PowerEmbeds”, functionality to embed videos and other media in email just like most of us are used to doing in blog posts and on websites, as well as SideBar apps, to add things like your Twitter feed to the side of your inbox.

PowerInbox launched an API to integrate apps with PowerInbox in February, and launched an API for email clients to utilize PowerInbox in April.