November 01, 2002
Microsoft's Weblog Software
Unfortunately, out-of-the-box SharePoint doesn't support RSS, let alone TrackBack or anything fancy. Also, adding "comments" is an exercise left to the user (not very hard, but not easy to do right). I think building an RSS feed would take only a couple hours' work - anyone done such a thing?
SharePoint Team Services, indeed. This is a very flexible (and, dare I say it, fairly elegant) little application, and it's a great weblogging tool.Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It's browser-accessible from any 4.0 or higher web browser and doesn't require Windows on the client. It leverages their strengths by integrating with Office, and there's no per-user client access fee. Then imagine if this weblogging tool were deployed to millions of users, all before anyone in the weblog community took notice.
Unfortunately, out-of-the-box SharePoint doesn't support RSS, let alone TrackBack or anything fancy. Also, adding "comments" is an exercise left to the user (not very hard, but not easy to do right). I think building an RSS feed would take only a couple hours' work - anyone done such a thing?
The one player which seems to be fully aware of both the weblog space and SharePoint's potential is Ray Ozzie's Groove Networks, which has fully embraced the SharePoint platform while being completely aware of the attention and activity around weblogs. Aside from Groove, most weblog software companies are either unaware of or unwilling to acknowledge Microsoft's participation in the realm, with the few discussions of the tool mentioning it only in passing, or in reference to Groove's relationship.Heh! (I'm not sure this isn't just a lucky coincidence - I'm working on the product and haven't had that discussion with other people here; it only very recently occurred to me how good a weblogging tool we're building)
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{groove:
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matt,
paresh,
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other:
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