Google Researchers Exploring Social Networking, Possibly for Google Me?

A deck with 216 slides? Yikes. Those guys should come work in my government department, they'll feel right at home.

I'm not sure that the separation of groups is really a big deal. Most people I know have solved that problem by using LinkedIn for their professional contacts and Facebook for everything else. It's the best way to maintain a clean break between the two and be certain that Facebook isn't going to dork it up.