I've just recently discovered the cool set of Wikicities (http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/List_of_Wikicities).

Some are junk and useless, but others, like the Star Wars wiki (http://starwars.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page) are very cool and comprehensive. They are all very much like the venerable Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com).

Now, let's bring Groove into this picture.

Groove Virtual Office (http://www.groove.net) is about setting up a workspace for collaboration within a group of people. The richness of Groove is, in some ways, far better than the wikis. You get threaded discussions, group calendars, forms, etc. But in other ways the wiki is king. I know that I can find out very excellent information from a wiki just by searching it. Groove is poor at searches.

So, now with Microsoft purchases Groove I think there is an interesting possibility here.

Microsoft has SharePoint - the intranet collaboration tool. Groove can be used to sync SharePoint spaces into a Groove workspace that can be shared with Groove users across the web. There is a clear link between a smart client and a web site.

Why not have the same between a wiki and Groove? Can you imagine a corporate wiki that can be synched into Groove and taken on the road. Each update silently makes its way through the internet to keep all Groove Wiki users up-to-date with all the coporate knowledge, procedures, clients, projects, etc, etc, etc.

Cool huh?

(Microsoft, please open a new Groove space and/or blog to tell us where Groove is going. Please?)