GMail will now sort your email for you based on what it thinks is most important. Similar to its existing spam filter, GMail will learn, and can be trained to learn what is most important to you based on the emails you read, reply to, or mark as important.

 To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.

Seems like a good way to get a lot more would-be developers creating apps for Android. I'd be interested to see some of the more sophisticated apps that get created using App Inventor.

From afar, the Droid X looks like the EVO 4G, but up close the differences are obvious. Its slightly longer and wider…

People who have actually used the EVO 4G will tell you that it feels almost too big in your hand, the Droid X will be even larger.

Google considers Chrome for Mac and Linux stable enough to remove the beta tag.

Starting today, we are making Google Wave openly available to everyone as part of Google Labs. You no longer need an invitation to wave -- simply visit wave.google.com and sign right in.

The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.

Google has been the logical company to compete with Amazon's web services.

Will run on Android, which says very little about Chrome OS.

Google has updated the look of their search results, to help users better refine their search. The options were always there but now show up by default and are context aware. The mobile version of Google search has also been updated.

Now includes extensions and bookmark synching. I've been using the dev version of Chrome for Mac almost exclusively as my main browser for almost two months now.

Google launches Buzz today which is eerily similar to FriendFeed for those familiar with FriendFeed. For those that aren't, imagine Twitter and Facebook had a baby, add in location aware features and put it in front of GMail's millions of users, and you have Google Buzz. It will be rolling out to all GMail users over the next few days.

Now it is working on combining the two technologies to produce software capable of understanding a caller’s voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language. Like a professional human interpreter, the phone would analyse “packages” of speech, listening to the speaker until it understands the full meaning of words and phrases, before attempting translation.

This is a logical step for Google, we'll see just how accurate it is, as Google Voice transcribing can sometimes be, imprecise.

Google has finally updated the mobile version of the Google Voice site to now function like a true web app. While it's still no native app, it looks and functions much better than it used to.

YouTube has released an opt-in program that will allow you to view most of their videos using the HTML5 <video> tag. It's currently only available to Chrome and Safari users.

Google:

In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.

You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year.

This seems to be paving the way for Chrome OS storage in the cloud.

But at the end of that week, I'm beginning to think that Chrome might stick around for quite some time as my day-to-day browsing browser.

I started trying out the nightly builds of Chromium last month, and haven't gone back to Safari. It's been much faster than Firefox, and has a growing list of extensions. My only gripe is Chrome's lack of support for Snow Leopard's Services menu.

(via John Gruber)