Tuesday, July 16, 2002

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Groove is clearly gaining momentum here in the Netherlands, these last days i've been contacted by 2 seperate journalists that wanted to interview me about Groove. I had some very interesting conversations with both of them.

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David Gammel reacts on Mike Helfrich's piece on Technology Confined Collaboration Good article from a Groove VP. It reminds me of the famous commercial for a consulting firm that featured cowboys herding thousands of cats across the plains. The joke there is that cats are independent minded beings and are not very receptive to centralized herding control. The other joke is that the consulting firm claimed they could do the herding for you. Decentralized collaborative software such as Groove and weblogs allow knowledge worker cats to do their own herding. They really won't be herded any other way.

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Justin Rudd thinks the Groove network is cool but doesn't like the transceiver, i guess that's why he keeps calling it the Transcender ;-) Why not leverage the kick ass network and make the tools that are out there collaborate more effectively.  Instead of forcing me and my team to use Transcendar, why not write plugins that will let me use Outlook and my coworker in England use Lotus Notes.  I create a calendar entry for a particular space, it goes in my calendar, gets sent across the wire to Jolly Ol' England and goes in his Lotus Notes calendar.  That would be more useful to me.