But the social-networking site confirmed late Thursday that it has, at least in some circumstances, sent the user name of a Facebook member to its advertising partners

News of this data sharing, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday evening, could prove embarrassing to the social-networking site,

With Gist enabled the user is promised an ability to get a quick snapshot of the information surrounding a contact in the inbox without having to go outside,

GMail itself has already evolved the experience of email experience - with Gist enabled the experience of the inbox goes further into being the command center for business communications without needing to leave for the web for more information.

how do you make money in the cloud. First let's look at software. Let's be honest, for the most part providing traditional single tenant software is dead. Most broad customer software today is being provided as a service over the internet and in a browser. Companies like Salesforce.com and Google represent the poster children for this approach

Dans le futur, on risque de retrouver avec Google Apps le syndrome d'enfermement qui a fait l'hégémonie de Windows depuis quinze ans. Et seuls les utilisateurs avancés, qui maîtriseront la fédération d'identité, pourront éviter l'enfermement, un peu comme les utilisateurs de Linux qui ont appris à se passer de Windows.