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Ray Ozzie on the key design requirement for Collaboration Ware. Which is why I'm such a big believer in client-side tools that work the way that people want them to work. If you work on your documents naturally in a personal environment tailored to a certain natural workstyle - e.g. Radio Userland, or the "shared canvas" of the Groove transceiver - a "bot" in that space can move or stream it automatically to the Web, SharePoint, to Siebel or SAP, or to your repository of choice. If someone had to "post" the information as a separate step, they won't.