She excitedly told me that communication takes place within the software and is captured and available for review and comment much more easily than by using email.

FORBES: Say Good-Bye to Email?

Last year Chris Graham, the commissioner, made clear his view that, whatever any officials and ministers think, they can't evade the FOI law by using private email.

BBC: FOI, fear and personal emails for public business

About five times more users update their site via email than by using the Posterous website itself, with 50% of those bloggers sending in posts from their smartphones (Posterous has an iPhone app, and an Android app due out in December).

FORBES: Names You Need To Know In 2011: Posterous

Other projects included a dashboard that predicts when petitions will cross the 100, 000 signature threshold, documentation and step-by-step primers on using the API, email alert systems that inform you when a petition on an issue you care about has been created, and more.

WHITEHOUSE: Looking Back at the White House Hackathon

"Although these programs have an air of goodness, " he wrote in the email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, "Google is in fact using this program to develop a grass-tops network" of small businesses they can "activate to their defense" if the FTC tries to bring a case.

WSJ: Behind Google's Antitrust Escape

Yes, we welcome our new Search Engine overlords and all that, so long as they've got our best interests at heart, but there's a certain irony in Google removing a backdoor exploit by using a backdoor of its own -- even one that (in this case) will email you to report what it's done.

ENGADGET: Google flips Android kill switch, destroys a batch of malicious apps (update)

Mr. Perez also misled Congressional investigators by saying on March 22 that he didn't have any "recollection" of using his personal email to communicate about the quid pro quo.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Perez Stonewall