Groove and Radio Userland?
Friday, October 27th, 2000From a recent interview with Ray Ozzie:
The platform we’re building serves individuals at the edge of the organization, as opposed to systems at the center. The tools that people are using successfully at the edge of the organizations—e-mail and telephone—are self-empowering tools. People don’t have to ask somebody to make a phone call; they just dial the number.
So Stan Krute and me just entered a Groove shared space and tried to edit RU outlines from inside Groove. It turns out we can open and edit, but not save successfully. What we have is a nice new way of setting up a discussion group - but no real integration with anything else.
Right now Stan is reporting those bugs and I’m reading up on some developer stuff. The next step is probably to build a simple Groove tool (this link is a Powerpoint slide, sorry about that). A Groove tool is an XML-based template that script COM-objects. There are tutorials and samples in the Groove Developer Kit.
There is also a COM type-library called GrooveXMLRPC that I am curious about.
Stan reports that Groove’s outliner sucks and thinks there is a win-win with RU. I agree!
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