Monday, August 05, 2002

Ray Ozzie goes public. The founder of Groove Networks (and before that, creator of Lotus Notes) has forsaken the safety of his company's ... [Loosely Coupled weblog] The founder of Groove Networks (and before that, creator of Lotus Notes) has forsaken the safety of his company's shared private spaces to begin publishing a weblog. There's not much there yet, but its very existence has already excited comment from Jon Udell, which was picked up by Dave Winer, thus generating plenty of traffic). Why so much attention? Quite simply, because Ray Ozzie is mroe or less the patron saint of corporate online communication. His career to date has been entirely devoted to enabling organizations to share knowledge, information and gossip within enclosed, private spaces. And now he's venturing into a public space — or proposing to, at least, for as he states (and as Jon Udell rapidly elaborated on): "Forcing myself to partition internal vs. external on a daily basis would truly be a mindset change..." 10:41:54 PM

Office gets its XML Groove. Toolkit leverages Microsoft Web services strategy to extend Office collaboration [InfoWorld: Top News] I can't speak for Groove, but I'm personally a bit confused as the article weaves pieces of news from two sepearate but complementary products or initiatives: the Groove Toolkit for VS.NET and the Office/Sharepoint Integration. Designed as an add-on to Microsoft's .Net development environment, Groove Toolkit for Visual Studio .Net allows developers to rapidly build WinForms-based applications hosted in Groove's Workspace environment. Using C# or VB .Net, the toolkit will ease the development of WinForm applications that leverage the collaborative capabilities of SharePoint Team Services and Groove Workspace, said Jack Ozzie, co-founder and vice president of development, platform, and developer services at Groove Networks. 10:50:58 AM

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