Thursday, November 14, 2002

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Welcome to John Giudice who recently started a weblog. John is Groove's productmanager responsible for the Classic and .NET Development kit. I met him a couple of weeks ago during the partner briefing where i had the oppurtunity to get good answers from him on some burning questions Tim was having. One of his first posts on his blog is exactly the point i've been making today at a presentation for a major dutch building company why they should consider using Groove. They are starting a Groove pilot :-) Email has been one of the world's transforming collaborative application in the way it made it so easy for people to share information with others and get their feedback. Email's great step forward was how it speed up the cycle of sharing and getting feedback compared to early methods of sharing information like paper memos. What once took days is now accomplished in hours. IM and chatting have speed up the interaction cycle a bit more. With many IM systems you know the person is online or not. With IM you can interact with the other person right away (if they are willing). For me IM is just like the phone. IMs interupt what you are doing and ask for your immediate response. In fact it seems some people consider it rude if you do not respond to IMs fast enough. For these two types of collaboration the gain comes from speeding up the interaction process between people.

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A fresh new look for Groove's homepage