Saturday, February 08, 2003

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Thank you Matt for pointing to this very interesting discussion initiated by John Dowdell on Groove and Flash.  In the past year our company has been steadily investigating the possibilities of Flash and Groove and built various prototypes of rich userfriendly flashtools to be used standalone on the web or collaborative within a Groovespace. I've blogged about this earlier including links to some of the stuff we made till then. In april last year, with the release of Groove 2.0, we made our first Architect0r-prototypetool generally available and have been working on some other prototypes since then and i think the results and potential are extremely exciting. The use of flash in Groovetools within a workspace for realtime collaboration without the need of a server or building rich Groove connected Flashapps delivered by the browser on all sorts of devices PC, Mac, en PDA's etc. and using Groove Web Services to get data in and out specific spaces. It's all very powerful stuff in my opinion. The release of Groove Web Services finally closes the loop by opening up Groove and with it,this whole world of Flashy Groovetools and Groovy Flashapps emerges. I'm sure we'll have lots of fun exploring it.....