Wednesday, August 14, 2002

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Loosely Coupled Weblog : The latest recruit to corporate blogging is Groove Networks, whose founder and CEO Ray Ozzie attracted immediate attention when he launched a new weblog at the end of last month. The company's website now features a page listing all the blogs kept by its key staff, as well as independent blogs that write about Groove. That's a big step further forward than Macromedia, but why stop there? Aggregation is the name of the game, if you ask me. That page would be a whole lot more valuable if it showed the most recent headlines or first paras from those blogs, and doubly so if it offered an RSS feed of the aggregated links.

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News.com features an article by Ray Ozzie called The myth of cybersecurity Someday, some shareholder is going to lose quite a bit of money because an electronic message was "sniffed," or "spoofed." Someone's health or financial records are going to get into the wrong hands. A design will be compromised; someone will get hurt.  And at that point, network television cameras are going to be focused on a lawyer who's asking a company executive, or a government official, "Sir, were there reasonable alternatives at the time?" Ray also adds some worthwhile comments on this issue on his weblog.

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Matt Mower contacted me today via Groove and i showed him around in a Groovespace. He would like to see a Mac version, just like myself and lots of other Grooveusers. Personally i need to collaborate with a number of professionals (graphic designers, Architects, etc) and individuals who are using Macs only and Groove would be such a natural fit for these small, creative, adhoc workgroups. In my opinion this is one of the major factors preventing widespread, grassroots adaptation of Groove at this moment. Ray Ozzie wrote on his weblog a few days ago : Regarding the Mac, two factoids - take them for what you will: a) the top personal request on the Groove website is currently "when will there be a Mac version?", and b) no major enterprise customer has yet asked to purchase a Mac version.  Quite perplexed. I can only hope that major customer comes along very soon. cause i yearn for a 17" iMac with OSX and Groove ;-)

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I just upgraded my laptop account to Groove 2.1. Had to reboot twice and also followed on Ray's tip defragmenting my disk after installing. Everything seems to be working allright now and i'm experiencing some notable performance gains especcially switching between tabs and spaces. For an overview of the features of 2.1 check out this PDF