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Some fascinating thoughts from Paul Snively (Nov'00) on cross-platform libraries that offer specific features (replication, crypto, etc.) equivalent to those in Groove (or the possibility of adding Groovy features to Radio Userland). Reimplementing Groove: Hopefully Groove Networks are already looking at this, as it seems they've painted themselves into a rather nasty corner by being COM-based. However, the Mozilla project of course already ran into these same issues and appears to be on the road to resolving them. If I were going to reimplement Groove, here's what I'd be looking at...

By coincidence, yesterday Jon Udell wrote about current activities at integrating Groove and Radio Userland. To me the problem to solve is: can the different strengths of these different modes complement one another? Also, the day before he said I would love it if, in the kind of situation Matt describes - where an issue arises in blogspace that really does require more Tightly Coupled interaction - I could experience Groove instead of email as the framework for that interaction.