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We are testing a version of Tim's Groove Bloggingtool that updates to a Radio Weblog and that enables realtime collaborative blogging. Because of this i have been nosing in the archives of the Decentralization group. Dug up lots of interesting stuff especcially this conversation between Dave Winer,Ray Ozzie and others about the way to connect Groove to Radio. Ray describes some examples in June 2001:
1) Public directory publisher (pushing out of groove)
A user adds a tool to a Groove shared space that enables the users of that space to configure it so that it publishes (probably using XML-RPC or SOAP) a brief summary of the shared space, along with a .GRV invitation file, to a web server. The best outcome, of course, is to create a server that is an aggregator of such things, perhaps itself republishing these as RSS. (If one wished to get fancy, this could be extended to optionally publishing the members' vcard/contact info for outside aggregation.)
2) Group blog editor (bidirectional integration)
The concept is a group editing UI for, say, a Manila weblog. A user would add a tool to a Groove shared space that is, in essence, a "connector" tool. The tool would be responsible, say, for connecting an existing Groove Discussion tool's data model into something like Manila. It would probably work best more as a replicator than as something that does "open" and "save", if you catch my drift.
3) Group news tool (pulling into groove)
The concept is a group who wants to stay informed. A user would add a tool to a Groove shared space that is, in essence, a "news tool". The tool would be responsible for pulling aggregated news feeds into the tool on a periodic basis so that its members can stay informed. It could use an embedded browser control to display the news items, etc. Whether the tool itself does the aggregation, or whether the tool regularly downloads from one of your servers that does the aggregation on its behalf, is unknown; both are clearly possible. Hugh has done great work on scenario 1 with Rendezvoo.net and on scenario 3 with his Newsclienttool. Looks like Tim's Radio Groovetool is an example of the functionality described in scenario 2. 
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