Saturday, February 15, 2003

John Robb asks a pointed question about France and their deals with Hussein's Iraq. [Scripting News] 6:28:04 PM    comment []

Socialtext. I am pleased to say I am working on a new company -- Socialtext. Socialtext is a provider of Social Software Solutions.  We make simple tools that help people get together and get work done. My co-founders are Peter Kaminski, Edward Vielmetti, Adina Levin and we have a great group of advisors, friends and collaborators.  We have been cooking it for a while and I am having as much fun as I can remember. Not much to talk about except what we have done.  And this isn't big tell the world news until we have done more. The Socialtext site has a public workspace that runs on our wiki engine.  Feel free to use this public space for any project you like. [Ross Mayfield: Social Networks] 3:34:52 PM    comment []

Groove 2.5. Team blogging Groove founder Ray Ozzie and his teams have always pretended to build application software. But what they have actually delivered are the operating systems of the future -- years ahead of schedule. The XML business Web is only now achieving the architecture that Lotus Notes laid down 15 years ago: message-oriented exchange of semi-structured documents. As today's operating systems catch up with that paradigm, Ozzie is tackling the next set of challenges in Groove: drop-dead simple secure collaboration, presence management, coordination of user and device identities, and ad-hoc group group formation. [Full story at InfoWorld.com.] The scenario shown in the screenshot uses Tim Knip's Groove interop tool -- a Radio UserLand add-in based on Groove Web Services -- to create a genuinely new experience of team blogging. Until now, team blogging has meant that a group posts to a common weblog. This setup does that too, but it also does something I find much more powerful -- it synchronizes the inputs to the collaborative process, as well as the output. In this case, the input is the combined set of RSS feeds subscribed to by the members of the shared space. Everyone knows that everyone else is seeing the same feeds. Discussion can grow around items in those feeds, and can take various forms: replies to the forum that receives the feeds, IM-style text chat, Roger Wilco-style voice chat. ... [Jon's Radio] 3:32:45 PM    comment []