Saturday, August 10, 2002

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Steve Gillmor : With Notes essentially cloned and the original Ozzie team resurfaced at Groove Networks, Microsoft shifted its attention to XML Web Services. With Microsoft's investment in Groove, collaboration R&D is now focused on the intersection of Groove's decentralized peer-to-peer model and Microsoft's centralized STS (SharePoint Team Services).

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Greg Reinacker gets into the Groove : It was Sam's post that made me start looking into Groove.  From reading other earlier posts about it, I just didn't get it.  Well, this morning I spent a half hour or so on Groove's web site, and I still didn't get it.  If I hadn't heard so much hype on the blogs about it, I would have quit right there. So then I download and install Groove, and start playing with it.  After 15 or 20 minutes of this, I'm starting to get it, so I think.  I call a few people from a client's office and get them to install it, and we start exploring what we can do.  By now, I'm getting excited about what I can do with this, and I'm starting to think I get it.  We figure out a couple of quick wins, and share a "pilot" groove space out to the team.