Groove: Ten Good Reasons Not To Buy
Robin Good,
Jul 24, 2003
George (I'm redesigning) Siemens picks up this nice link containing a sharp, incisive criticism of Groove. Having just used Groove to conduct an online seminar to Australia, I am in a good position to say that the criticisms are justified. Groove demands most of your system's resources, it is a bandwidth hog, its interface is awkward and cumbersome, and it is missing some essential features, such as videos. I also agree with the author's assessment that Groove is innovative, but it really must slim down (though I don't know if it can, because it uses Java) and really rethink its usability. "We only want to collaborate. You are not the only guilty one in this, but you are a visionary so it should occur to you first that when we collaborate we never pronounce the words co-browse or conference. We just do it and we label it with everyday language: Show me what you have got; let's talk about it all together now.!" Exactly right.
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