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Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic.

Email overload has finally met its match. Tomorrow, Gmail is rolling out a new feature called Priority Inbox that is going to be a Godsend for those of you who dread opening your email. In short, Google has built a system that figures out which of your messages are important, and presents them at the top of the screen so you don’t miss them. The rest of your messages are still there, but you don’t have to dig through dozens of newsletters and confirmations to find the diamonds in rough.

Who Gets Funded? (Click for larger) via Alexander Hotz at Mashable (via soupsoup)

When many of us think of an Internet company we might think of a Michael Cera type character holed away in his parents’ basement but the stats from the report show some interesting trends. Entrepreneurs in 2010 are a relatively homogeneous lot: Most are older than you think and yet only a fraction are black (1%) or female (8%). Still there is some hope that good-old smarts wins the day; 98% have an undergrad degree or higher.

David Karp and tumblr on the cover of Time Out New York.

OH HAI DAVID!

(via: mdfsmash:fredseibert and nickmcglynn)

if you’re wondering what sums me up in a dashboard screenshot - I’d say this is pretty appropriate

So this just happened. Andrew and Shira are in Rome at the moment and we just had a baller skype convo.

The Microfame Game and The New Rules of Internet Celebrity

The lines between empowerment and self-promotion, between sharing and oversharing, between community and cliques, can be blurry. You can judge for yourself whether the following microcelebs represent naked ambition, talent justly discovered, or genius marketing. The point is that renown is no longer the exclusive province of a select few. Nano-celebrity is there for the taking, if you really want it.

 (via blakeley and caro)