Today, Google will begin rolling out Priority Inbox for Gmail, a new feature for managing massive amounts of e-mail. Your inbox will never be the same again. Priority Inbox is Google’s attempt to solve the e-mail woes of Gmail power users. At its core, the feature is an algorithm; Priority Inbox uses information such as keywords, the people you e-mail the most and your e-mail habits to select [...]

The social link sharing site that has watched its once-meteoric rise to popularity level off over the last couple years, is relaunching today as it attempts to surge to greater heights — with an added focus on making the site better for publishers as well as users. Digg v4 will be rolling out over the next few hours, and brings some major changes that could totally change the dynamic of the [...]

Google has acquired visual search and price comparison engine Like.com, according to an open letter posted on Like.com’s website. “Since 2006, Like.com has been moving the frontiers of eCommerce forward one step at a time,” said Munjal Shah, the company’s CEO. “We were the first to bring visual search to shopping, the first to build an automated cross-matching system for clothing, and [...]

Facebook has acquired social activity and ‘check-in’ service provider Hot Potato for about $10 million in cash.Facebook, fresh from announcing its entry into the location game (our ongoing coverage), and Hot Potato this morning confirmed the acquisition, which is clearly a move by the social networking juggernaut to bring in more talent rather than expanding its product line. In a blog post, [...]

Was it a social network or a collaboration tool on steroids? Nobody could quite agree, and it’s one reason for the demise of Google Wave.The company is disappointed with the user adoption and has announced it will discontinue developing Wave as a stand-alone product. Google Wave was largely an Australian developed product. Google will maintain the service through the end of the year and will [...]

At this point, pretty much every tech industry insider knows that Facebook is going to jump into the geolocation game. First rumored to be launching at Facebook’s F8 conference back in April, the exact date of Facebook’s location launch has been up in the air. Yet another report, this time from CNET, pegs the release of Facebook’s geolocation product to be “within weeks.” The difference [...]

Facebook this week launched “Places,” a service that allows any user to “check in” to restaurants, stores and other local businesses — thereby sharing their location with friends. The new feature is virtually identical to the much-hyped location startups Foursquare and Gowalla, leading to the obvious question: Are these upstarts now doomed? I’d stop far short of [...]