SB Chatterjee : I have been exploring Groove Web Services files using various XML tools. GWS adds an entirely a different dimension to building collaborating applications - BPEL4WS comes into mind.

Fortune : Beyond the Lotus position

Infoworld : Microsoft updates intranet Solution

Eweek sums up the features of the upcoming Groove 2.5 release

Infoworld brings a special report on the evolution of P2P with lots of Groovy details.

P-to-p's next frontier ?
Mobile, wireless apps may present a solid peer-to-peer opportunity for enterprises.

"You put crypto providers at the edge of the network ... really pump up the level of encryption," agrees Michael Helfrich, vice president of applied technology for Groove Networks, which is also developing p-to-p technology to support mobile and wireless applications. "We decided early on that the best decentralized security architecture leverages smart clients, allowing them to ride on dumb networks."

Dancing with peer -to-peer
As p-to-p begins to play new roles, enterprises will need to learn new steps

The lack of centralized control in pure p-to-p systems scared off many enterprises from deploying the technology, but with a number of hybrid p-to-p models now available, companies can choose systems that allow a measure of control while still offering the benefits of p-to-p's decentralized nature -- benefits that extend far beyond desktop-to-desktop collaboration.

Putting peer-to-peer in place
At GlaxoSmithKline, Groove proves to be the right peer-to-peer prescription

"Presence is going to be huge on an ongoing basis in terms of how people are going to interact in the future on a much more synchronous way," says Rob Batchelder, research director at Gartner in Stamford, Conn. "That's one of the hidden benefits that's going to come out of this peer-to-peer stuff -- people are going to increasingly use presence and weave presence into their business processes."

Commweb : Getting out of isolated-workspace ruts

Dana Gardner, an analyst with Aberdeen Group, says there's no other product on the market that can combine a powerful centralized collaboration tool such as Sharepoint with the decentralized, offline capabilities of Groove. "There's nothing this comprehensive for the user and easy for an IT department," Gardner says. "You get the best of an intranet combined with the best of an extranet."

Great news : The WSDL and XSD files for the eagerly awaited Groove Webservices are available through Groove's Devzone

Groove Web Services provide programmatic access to Groove tools and objects through SOAP interfaces, available for Groove Workspace's most popular components, including Files, Discussion, Calendar, Contacts, Members, and Awareness. Further, Groove Web Services infrastructure supports 3rd party developers' ability to expose their custom Groove tools as web services. 

Groove Networks announces its involvement in "Connecting Time", a collaborative learning initiative of the Model Secondary Schools Project (MSSP) funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

"Since we started the 'Connecting Time' project 10 weeks ago, students have been using Groove software to collaborate with classmates - both at their own school and at other schools across the country," said Linda Keller, MSSP Director. "They've been able to communicate with each other in real time, share ideas and information, and brainstorm on projects. Groove provided the perfect platform for this type of interactive education experience both for the students and the teachers."

Some time ago i was interviewed by a 2 journalists about Groove. Google found out that one of these interviews (dutch) can now be purchased online for "just" 19,75 €. Hehe, nice to know the worth of my opinion ;-)

Microsoft announces OneNote . This new member in the office family enables you to create and organize notes for personal and business use in a natural way and looks like an potential interesting fit for Groove.

Easy content creation and recovery in the form of multimedia notes combined with Groove's always-on encrypted storage, secure sharing and realtime collaboration on specific notes. Very powerful stuff in my opinion especially on a WiFi tablet PC. Probably Groove and MS feel the same way and i hope they come up with a Groovy OneNotetool of some kind in the future. Hugh's Pinboard tool on steroids ?

Download this interesting IDC Whitepaper sponsored by Groove Networks : There should be more to collaboration then Email.  For more information read the official press release

The November edition of the monthly Groove Networks bulletin is available now.

Take part in a Groove survey and earn a 10$ Amazon gift certificate

CRN puts Ray Ozzie on their list of the top 25 of most influential CEO's

Boston Globe reports on the Tablet PC and has Matt Pope showcasing some scenario's

Welcome to John Giudice who recently started a weblog. John is Groove's productmanager responsible for the Classic and .NET Development kit. I met him a couple of weeks ago during the partner briefing where i had the oppurtunity to get good answers from him on some burning questions Tim was having.
One of his first posts on his blog is exactly the point i've been making today at a presentation for a major dutch building company why they should consider using Groove. They are starting a Groove pilot :-)

Email has been one of the world's transforming collaborative application in the way it made it so easy for people to share information with others and get their feedback. Email's great step forward was how it speed up the cycle of sharing and getting feedback compared to early methods of sharing information like paper memos. What once took days is now accomplished in hours.

IM and chatting have speed up the interaction cycle a bit more. With many IM systems you know the person is online or not. With IM you can interact with the other person right away (if they are willing). For me IM is just like the phone. IMs interupt what you are doing and ask for your immediate response. In fact it seems some people consider it rude if you do not respond to IMs fast enough.

For these two types of collaboration the gain comes from speeding up the interaction process between people.

A fresh new look for Groove's homepage

Forbes : CEO Network Chat with Microsoft VP Jim Allchin

EContent : Decision-maker review Groove 2.0

Volker Weber is pleased with Groove's support

Scott Loftesness : Yesterday, I updated my Groove installation to the latest version: 2.1c. On my machine, Groove's disk thrashing seems to be significantly reduced -- making it less painful to switch into Groove and to move between shared spaces. Note that this isn't a minor update -- it's about a 27 MB download! More on my Living with Groove journal.

The Groove Learning Center has been added to Groove's website. Learning Center resources include documents, courses, book excerpts, and presentations designed to help Groove users, developers and administrators. 

Internetnews : Microsoft partners showcaseTablet PC offerings

Groove's first offering for the Tablet PC is a digital ink-enabled chat tool for its Groove Workspace. The product combines Groove's security collaboration environment wth the Tablet's PC's ink capabilities. The combination allows a Tablet PC user to use the Tablet PC pen to make an on-screen sketch and then share it with colleagues.

Groove Networks announces Groove Workspace Ink Chat tool for Microsoft XP Tablet PC edition.

Hugh Pyle : Tablet is really quite important, in an incremental way (which is why I think it may succeed where others have failed). Of course one of Microsoft's great strengths is in lowering "transition cost", making disruptive changes more palatable; with the Tablet edition of XP, ink arrives incrementally. Already there are signs of some really good applications; vertical solutions for healthcare, of course, but also some fun games and demonstrators. And Groove. Groove is such a good fit to the platform.

Matt Pope talks about the Tablet PC that is going to be released tomorrow. I'm looking forward to have my Groove running on one of these machines and to play with the Groove ink chat tool that will be available soon.

The results of the online Groove survey, that has been held 2 weeks ago, are available for download (xls) from Amar Patel's homepage.

Groove and Glaxo case study : Surmounting Corporate Boundaries

Matt Pope : One of the more interesting aspects of GWS is that it is that the web services provider is the Groove client itself; web services from the desktop.  The API is callable from both local and remote programs.  In the former case, we have a local SOAP server running on the same machine as Groove.  Radio is the only program I've used that employs a similar model (local http server).

Hugh Pyle : Take a local application which can subscribe to RSS feeds and which can make SOAP calls. Ping the local Groove installation via SOAP when there's new news. Punt the articles into a Groove space you're sharing with friends and colleagues. Bing! Any takers?

Steve Gillmor : Follow the money

CIO Magazine : Instant Messaging goes corporate

Infoworld analysis from Jon Udell : Extending Groove

Hugh Pyle : It only very recently occurred to me how good a weblogging tool we're building.

In light of the upcoming Groove-Sharepoint integration with the release of Groove 2.5, an interesting article by Anil Dash on Microsoft's Weblog Software 

John Burkhardt : Groove takes some getting used to.  And it takes some effort.  Groove is not just technology, but its also centered around people.  It takes effort from both fronts.  Just because you have some collaboration software doesn't mean you suddenly know how to collaborate online.  It takes some practice.  But the payoff can be huge.  I can't imagine life without Groove...