Facebook announced some tweaks to the Facebook messages inbox and filtering on Thursday, allowing a small percentage of users to test out a feature that would allow them to pay to have a message delivered to another user’s primary inbox rather than the secondary one. Read more »
A paper showing how Google’s Priority Inbox feature works shows how the future of the web can evolve to deliver hyper-personalized results to users while relying on a huge sample of people connected through the cloud. Priority Inbox isn’t just good for productivity, it’s the future. Read more »
Gmail’s Priority Inbox feature — a smart feature that learns which of your emails are the most important and displays them in a separate inbox — now provides feedback on why it considers particular emails important and has a tweaked algorithm that should mean it learns faster. Read more »
As most of the world is aware, Facebook launched its Social Inbox feature last week. The unified messaging system pipes online and mobile communication functions people use — SMS, instant messaging, Facebook chat messages — into a single inbox. On the face of it, having just ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Google today is launching a new feature (in beta) for its popular Gmail service — Priority Inbox — which uses machine-learning technologies and marries them to Google’s search capabilities. Some of us might have a near-term solution to handling the backbreaking load of email. Read more »
