Tuesday, May 20, 2003

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Don Park : Ray Ozzie has been blogging mostly about blogging and occasionally social software.  His exploration-style writing has attracted a large following, but I doubt his blog has generated sales for Groove.  Until now, that is.  Today, he raved about TeamDirection, a third-party Groove application along with a cool screenshot. I don't think Ray was trying to do anything other than give an honest opinion about a great piece of software, but I believe the effect on the bottomline will be tremendous.  Most people just don't realize that Groove is an application platform.  The best way to sell an application platform is to do what Ray did today, evangelizing applications.  And don't forget to throw in eye-candies!

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Scott Loftesness  : I need a relatively simple Groove application that would seem to have widespread applicability across the Groove community. Many years ago, there was an application called InfoLog (on the Macintosh) which allowed a user to create an index of metadata that would allow a variety of information elements to be associated with a particular paper document. The paper document would have one and only one identification -- a serial number. The serial numbers were assigned in ever increasing numbers as InfoLog entries were added. What I need is an InfoLog built into Groove -- allowing me to share a common paper file numbering system with my far flung colleagues! Contact me if you know of this application for Groove.