We didn't get to blog the conference yesterday, although I took some notes which will turn up online sometime. Now, the main reason we couldn't blog live was the connectivity. Suite75's main office has a wireless network, so everyone's sitting around doing email and Groove and browsing the web, drinking coffee; but the presentations room was non-cloud.

I haven't asked Tim yet, but I think I realised why his little Groove-to-Blogger tool includes local (Groove recordset) storage of the posts you make. It's because then you can blog offline. The two lines of code needed to turn this on aren't in place yet, but that's a powerful vision, which Groove makes really easy and which is quite difficult to implement other ways. It's an offline web-services client (the calls to the webservice essentially get put in a queue until one of the peers working in the shared space can make a connection to the network).