The future of work, as long as you do your work on a Windows PC.
Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus notes, has a company and a product called Groove that aims to enable people to collaborate with each other remotely with their PCs. You use it to create a workspace that you share in a peer-to-peer fashion with the people you invite. Whenever your computer is online, it automatically synchronizes your workspace with whomever else is online, including file versions, messages, calendar items, whatever.
Version 3 of the product is in beta right now, and it seems just endlessly cool, except that it only runs under Windows.
At this point, I would not consider releasing a system for spontaneous collaboration unless I could provide it to users of Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Posted by zach at March 23, 2004 03:06 PMThat is, well, groovey.
You're right about the OS thing though.
Posted by: Little Bro at March 24, 2004 11:45 AM