Priority Inbox (Beta) is a new view of your inbox that automatically helps you focus on your most important messages. Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred,” and “Everything else”. Messages are automatically categorized as they arrive in your inbox.

Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over). You can improve the ranking in Priority Inbox by clicking the plus or minus buttons at the top of the inbox to mark conversations as important or not important.

You can choose to show different types of messages in each section, to set maximum sizes for each section, and to hide or add a section altogether. You can customize your sections from the Priority Inbox tab under Gmail Settings or right from the inline menus dropdown arrow.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
- Users can manually opt-in to this new feature by clicking on the "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner.
- Users can return to the normal view at any time by clicking on “Inbox” or by disabling Priority Inbox in “Settings”.
- Priority Inbox is not fully available in Gmail for mobile. There is, however, an “Important” label on the mobile web app and in IMAP where you will find your important messages if you have chosen to show Priority Inbox.
- If you only access your Gmail account through POP or IMAP, Priority Inbox won’t be fully available. If you select “Show Priority Inbox” from Gmail Settings in the web interface, you will see an “Important” label which contains your important messages.

Note: This feature is being rolled out gradually this week to Google Apps domains and only to domains whose administrator has enabled the ‘Enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Google Apps Control Panel under ‘Domain settings’.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html
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We’ve introduced in-cell dropdown and validation to spreadsheets. This makes it easy to constrain the values of an individual cell to a specific range or list.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
1. Enter data into a range of cells. For example, create a list of destinations on your spreadsheet.
2. Select the cell(s) you would like to validate.
3. Under the Tools menu, select Data validation...
4. Change the Criteria to ‘Items from a list.’
5. Click the button next to the ‘Create list from range’ option and select the range of cells you entered data in during Step 1.
6. Click Save and the cell you chose to validate will have a dropdown arrow in it with the data in your cell range as the potential input values. If you want, you can set a cell to allow invalid data.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-cell-dropdown-and-validation-in.html

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We’ve now introduced the ability to reveal all formulas with one click

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
When editing a spreadsheet you can enable this view in three ways: Select the ‘Show All Formulas’ button on the top right; Select ‘Show All Formulas’ in the View menu; Click Ctrl ‘ (Cmd ‘ on a Mac.)

For more information:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15115

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Voice and video chat for Linux is now available. This supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

How to access what's new:
Download the plugin

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/chat/bin/answer.py?answer=159499

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The following new features have been added to Google Sites:
- You can now add horizontal navigation to your site’s layout in one of three different options: boxes, tabs, and links.
- You can now set your site to have a global footer that displays across all pages on the site.
- We’ve added quick links to Google Docs embedded to Google Sites making it easier for collaborators to open embedded documents.
- We also added a “Deleted items” section to site management making it easier to get to deleted pages and attachments.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Sites

How to access what's new:
Horizontal navigation: You can enable this in More actions > Manage site > Site layout > Change site layout. You can also set the background, link and hover properties via More actions > Manage site >Colors and Fonts.
Global footer: Set this footer via More actions > Manage site > Site layout > Change site layout.
Deleted items: You can access this new option at More actions > Manage site > Deleted items. In this new section, you can choose to recover deleted items or permanently delete them manually. Deleted items can be recovered up to 30 days after they have been deleted, after which they will be permanently removed.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/horizontal-navigation-site-footer-and.html
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