Blender developers should take a look in this new set of Byron´s plug-ins for Maya. Very good beveling and selection tools. Maybe it´s a good source of inspiration for future Blender features (I don´t mean copying here)
Really amazing tools here, that solve many Maya´s shortcomings on polys.
Byron´s page:
http://www.byronimo.de/
Features page:
http://www.byronimo.de/bpt_details.htm
Alexandre Rangel