Infoworld's Chad Dickerson :

I demo-ed Groove to the edit staff here last week and everyone is ready to roll it out but the Mac question persists -- though we will probably be using Virtual PC to deal with that issue.  Groove has already become the collaboration platform of choice within the InfoWorld Technology department, barely three weeks after we introduced it into our environment.  I haven't seen something catch fire this fast since a developer in my department starting using IM a few years ago, and the next thing I knew, we all just had to be using IM.  Groove is so powerful that I'm not sure I can do it justice, so I'll point again to Jon Udell's review of Groove Workspace 2.5.   Bottom line for us internally at InfoWorld:  it solves a lot of our problems, which is what good software is supposed to do.

Vsbabu.org reviews Groove 2.5

Groove is now at 2.5. All the issues I had with 2.0 still remains. Anyway, here is my first impression as a draft outline. To summarize, if you have a group that digs Groove, it can be a really good investment. I’m not sure how to make people love Groove though.

My hunch yesterday was right, Ray picked up his weblog. Welcome back !!

But I do miss being part of this fascinating social fabric.  To continue my own explorations, but also to share with you some amazing stories that have emerged from the Groove user community over the past six months.  I think you'll get a kick out of them.

Ray Ozzie on ZDNet : Surrounded by new opportunities

Even though our current use of PCs, productivity tools, e-mail and the Web seems quite sophisticated, we've only just begun to understand how to apply them and effectively realize their benefits. The next 10 years will find us moving decidedly from an era of personal productivity to one of joint productivity and social software. That will involve a move from tightly coupled systems to more loosely coupled interconnections. It will be an era of highly interdependent systems and relationships, with technology continuing to reshape the nature of organizations, economy, society and personal lives.

Hugh is exploring the interesting concept of presence indication in RSS feeds. I'm stll trying to grasp the full potential here but i think he's onto something. Last year we've been doing some experiments approaching it from the opposite side : secure RSS feeds within a presence aware environment in this case Groove. I guess both approaches have it's specific (dis)advantages and uses if they are even comparable in the frst place.

Matt Pope has picked up his weblog :-) and even Ray Ozzie's weblog shows some movement i wonder if we'll see Ray following Matt's example.....

A comparison of Yahoo Groups and Groove by Luigi Canali de Rossi

Infoworld : Taking collaboration to the masses

Google dug up a very intruiging page called :Ray Ozzie experimenting with adding weblogs and Groove to Lotus Notes. It's a well documented reserarch by Rod Welch packed with interesting links and observations.

Dave Winer dreams of Groove.........

I had a bunch of very strange dreams last night. Isn't that typical. Everyone's always saying that blogs are about trivial stuff. Anyway, here's the dream. Groove, for some reason, had fired all its engineers except for a couple, and Ray and his brother, and they hired Chuck Shotton, and Chuck was leading the team producing a new version, and instead of sucking up to Microsoft, they made it work really well with apps that support XML-RPC and RSS. I remember thinking what a strange idea. It took them a while to get a beta that works. Then I woke up

KC Bolton : A small group of us have started a Groove space to discuss the concept of Virtual Shared Care Teams in medicine. If you'd like to join in the discussion please head to this address and look under the Groove heading for the space. The invite file should be posted by Rainer Volz shortly.

More goodies from Hugh Pyle : A reflective piece on his GWS experiments and the announcement that the Newsreader for Groove is now Open Source !!

When Hugh starts playing it's allways time to pay attention.This time he cooked up some very useful stuff  : Awareness indicators in the startmenu and Send files to Groove using the right clickmenu. Cool!!

DC Denison : Military mind-set continues to hatch Internet ideas

Beverly-based Groove Networks, which creates peer-to-peer collaboration software, is enabling the swarm approach in commercial and government clients.
The medical coordinator for Civil Military Operations in Iraq, for example, is using Groove software to swarm a variety of relief agencies, like the Red Cross and Save the Children, around the protection and care of noncombatants.

Sam Gentile : I decided to import a bunch of messages into a groove space (since Groove does direct Import of a thread of Outlook emails into a shared discussion tool) and so, if anyone that has Groove already would live to be a part of a COM Interop or general Interop space, let me know and I'll send you an invite.

Volker Weber : Many people have asked me whether Groove has fallen from grace at vowe's magic flying circus. It has not. I still like it a lot. There is only one simple problem: It is bound to Windows. As I am not using Windows a lot these days, you won't see me in Groove.

Nick alias Mastergroover breaks the 3000 posts barrier on the Groove support forums. Thnx Nick, your work is appreciated !

CRN : Groove Eyes Small Businesses With Collaboration Starter Kits

Infoworld CTO Forum : Ray Ozzie charts dynamic collaboration

Ozzie cited a recent example of how Groove Workspace technology is being used on the front lines in the war in Iraq to coordinate supply requests. Previously, the supply replenishment process was cumbersome and slow, often requiring a courier to carry a paper form hundreds of miles back from the front lines to a remote supply location.

Because Groove is a purely decentralized system that does not need a server to host the application, laptops already available were loaded with the Groove application. Within two days, according to Ozzie, the Groove system was in place, collecting damage assessments and supply needs on laptops while offline and then transferring the requests back to the supply center when connectivity was available.

This example highlights the inherent value in providing technology that can quickly answer dynamic collaboration needs. "To conceptualize an application on a Saturday and deploy it on Monday is astounding," Ozzie said.

Network World Fusion analyzes Microsoft's collaborative software strategy

In March, the company rebranded its SharePoint Team Services as Windows SharePoint Services and moved them from Office XP into the operating system. The SharePoint Services let users set up online ad-hoc team sharing spaces and will complement SharePoint Portal Server for sharing documents companywide. To move that sharing over the firewall, Microsoft is partnering with peer-to-peer software maker Groove Networks and has made an $88 million investment in that company.

My weblog has made its IPO :-). It's now publicly traded on the Blogshares exchange. I also started to build up considerable positions into a number of other weblogs like the ones from Jon Udell, Sam Gentile, Stephen Dulaney and Mitch Kapor. If you don't know the Blogshares phenomenon yet, take a look at it. It's a lot of fun and a comprehensive metaphor to visualize and simulate complex (social) networks. Recommended!