Prism is a spinoff from Mozilla Labs' WebRunner XUL applications environment that allows web apps such as GMail, Flickr or FaceBook to run as desktop apps in their own seperate client windows.
I probably have GMail open enough to warrant breaking it off the browser tab bar into it's own space, although I'm not sure what it would add to the experience other than making me use the Alt-Tab keys a bit more often. Prism would definitely be useful if you were trying to offer web apps on the corporate desktop, though - particularly if you wanted to jump on the web app bandwagon without actually letting your employees use the web.
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