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Every techie worth his paycheque knows Google Groups (formerly DejaNews, and in paleolithic times - Usenet) is the magic beans of software development, by itself it's justification for getting internet access for developers. It is simply the best, largest repository of escoteric information on the net.

You may have noticed that last week a new version of Groups came out of Beta. When Groups-Beta was released I pretty much ignored it; It was always the content that was important - the group was just a category left over from Usenet. So other than looking more '2.0' what could Groups-Beta offer?

Google Groups is actually useful for business 

Well, it's a substantive improvment in terms of functionality, Groups now features full read/write access controls; file, document, and web hosting; as well as the revamped discussion groups. Rather the relying only on the wisdom of strangers, you can now create your own private knowledge base of development resources and use Google's technology and servers to host and search it. You can also quickly and easily create a product website as a single point of contact for your customers...

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