The 50-minute interview that I have had the pleasure of recording yesterday, during a live online VoIP session with Ray Ozzie is finally available online.
As I have mentioned before, the issues covered were quite a few, ranging from Groove latest ver 3 to RSS, VoIP and to interoperability with other technologies.
The above is one of the Chinese small paintings that I displayed as a visual during our electronic interview. My goal was to inject right from the beginning a good dose of high-touch to the certainly promising high-tech conversation we were going to have.
As a matter of fact, I found Ray to be a warm and gentle human being, with lots of emotions and a sincere passion for his work at Groove. Though such annotations may appear superfluous and obvious, I have a notorious repudiation for business-like, buttoned-up communications and to my surprise Ray revealed to have none of those unpleasant corporate traits while having intellectual sensors and perceptions of a finer class than most.
Though most of the technorati know well about Ray Ozzie, not everyone reading know that this is the man that has been first behind Lotus Notes and it is now the king of this revolutionary collaboration technology called Groove. Ray Ozzie has been honored as one of seven "Windows Pioneers" by Microsoft and was named "Person of the Year" in 1995 by PC Magazine.
To find out more about Ray Ozzie please see:
Groove Management Profiles: Ray Ozzie
Gurteen: Ray Ozzie
CIO Magazine - From Inventing The Enterprise
Ray Ozzie Weblog
To lend instead your ear to our one-hour conversation on the hot issues surrounding collaboration technologies, Groove and the convergence of RSS and social netowrking, here are your two options (the MP3 is a tad better in quality):
1) Windows Media
http://www.groove.net/extras/Groove_v3.0.wma
2) MP3
http://www.groove.net/extras/Groove_v3.0.mp3
(right-click, download the file to your hard disk and then play it back with your favourite multimedia player (e.g.: WinAmp, MacAmp).
Credits
Special thanks go to Bryan Vergato of iVocalize for providing the VoIP and recording facilities for this event.
Thanks to Groove Networks for hosting this recording.
