Video interview of SharePoint Wikis/Blogs/RSS Program Managers now on Channel 9
This video was done over a month ago, but it got held up in the queue since Scoble decided to leave Microsoft and had a ton of stuff to transition to the rest of his team. Anyway, the video is here on Channel9.
One of the key issues that might not have been emphasized strongly enough in the video is that the SharePoint Wikis/Blogs/RSS features were designed for the intranet and extranet scenarios as priorities over the Internet scenario. That’s why there’s currently no trackback support even though the dev team is trying to get that into the RTM release. Still, given that trackback can be exploited by spammers and has been declared dead by some prominent bloggers on the Internet, those are certainly good reasons to not build the functionality into the product. If people really needed this and other features for their Internet facing blogs or wikis, my hope is that the community around SharePoint will develop them as part of the SharePoint Community Kit “Internet Edition” or some other shared/open source project.
