Gmail Priority Inbox Fine

an Outlook Social Connector via LinkedIn It's neat, but not exactly earth-shattering. Gist, Xobni, Liaise however and several others are doing things to build a more intelligent inbox.The key difference is they don't have the network to support their products; they depend on Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo Mail or other clients to work.

And while Microsoft has added an Outlook Social Connector via LinkedIn to socialize its inbox along with myriad other filters, it doesn't have the same sort of filters Google has added to Gmail to prioritize messages.I spoke to Google Enterprise Group Product Manager Rajen Sheth yesterday about this tool.

I argued that the casual consumer may not have much use for this tool, but the hardcore business user -- the individual who uses Gmail as a messaging client for work -- will have a field day with it.As such, this is a major tool for Google Apps users who receive hundreds or thousands of e-mail messages per day.