Monday, January 06, 2003

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Brian Jepson : Will Groove's relay server link me up to other users' copies of a shared space (provided they have granted me access)? That could be just the thing that draws me in!

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Steve Gillmor and Jon Udell talk with Ray Ozzie on Disruptive technologies A successful platform is fractal in nature. You can build something unintended out of the piece parts. At the user level, in Groove, users can quickly bring together tools, people, and systems to solve some problem. It's glue, all the way up at the user level. If you descend to the next level, as you well know, we didn't have anything at the outset of Groove that let a script do glue kinds of things. Now that's what the Web Services effort is attempting to target. The more you get toward the C++ end of the world, the less spontaneous it becomes. All disruption comes from a soup of elements from which unintended consequences can result.