Category: Future

Nov 02 2009

Howdy, Howzee

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
2 November 2009

At Be2camp@WorkingBuildings last month, I met Tuomas Saarelainen who told me to have a look at his Helsinki, Finland-based company Mobimus and its service howzee.info – which I have just done. It is an intriguing concept, but currently only sketchily described (and with no website screenshots to give some idea of what the service looks …

Asesh Sarkar, Be2camp, Be2camp 2008, BuildingBulletins, construction collaboration technology, Finland, fit-out, Helsinki, HIP, Home Information Pack, housing associations, howzee.info, hyper-local, intellectual property, landlords, local authorities, micro-project, Mobimus, owners, property managers, ReadWriteEnterprise, residential lettings, ResidentsHQ, supply chain, tenants, Tuomas Saarelainen, UK, US

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Nov 02 2009

Collaboration at heart of future ICT, says SCRI

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
2 November 2009

(This is a slightly amended version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog.) This morning I discovered a SCRI Research Report, Future Generation of IT (PDF), published in June and reporting on discussions held at a ‘vision planning workshop’ hosted at Salford University back in January (2009). The aim of the event was to “identify …

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Oct 19 2009

ArchiCAD 13 and BIM collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS, Telecoms
19 October 2009

Over the past month, I have heard and read quite a bit about Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD 13: First, I read Lachmi Khemlani’s AECbytes review, telling me that, for the first time, a commercially available building information modelling (BIM) application now included server-based collaboration that potentially allows team members to work together in real-time. Next, I encountered …

AECbytes, Amonle, Archicad 13, architect, Barbados, Be2camp, BIM, BIMaaS, BIW, broadband, building information modelling, CAD, CAD User Online, CADaaS, David Chadwick, Delta file, differencing, Graphisoft, Holy Grail, John Allsopp, Lachmi Khemlani, MAAP Architects, Rahul Shah, Riverbed, server-based collaboration, Skype, synchronisation, UK, virtual design studio, WorkingBuildings2009
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Oct 01 2009

Coming soon: tender.ly

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
1 October 2009

Found through a Twitter connection: It’s almost ready. tender.ly is elegant and powerful web-based software, for Architecture, Engineering and Construction companies to conduct their tendering for suppliers and subcontractors. It’s software that makes your job easier, not harder. There’s no long-term contracts, just a low monthly fee. And you’ll be up and running in minutes, …

architecture, Australia, Constrex, Construction, Engineering, subcontractors, suppliers, Sydney, Tender.ly, tendering, Twitter
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Oct 01 2009

Woobius wins £23,000 at PICNIC

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
1 October 2009

I wrote again about Woobius a couple of weeks ago, noting that its real-time mobile collaboration solution, Woobius Eye, had reached the final of the Vodafone Mobile Click 2009 competition. Last Friday, in a Dragons Den-style appearance before judges and a 200-strong audience at the PICNIC social media event in Amsterdam, Woobius finished third, beating …

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Sep 14 2009

Keeping an Eye on Woobius

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 September 2009

I wrote about the low-cost simple collaboration application Woobius earlier this year (first here, then here), and they’ve remained on my radar ever since, partly because of their participation in one of this year’s Be2camp events (in Liverpool in May*), and partly because they subsequently approached me to undertake a couple of small PR projects …

Amsterdam, architect, architecture, Be2camp, Be2camp@WorkingBuildings, BIW Technologies, broadband, Capita Symonds, collaboration, connectivity, Construction, defects management, Engineering, facilities management, Gensler, Hayes Davidson, health and safety, Liverpool, logistics issues, London Olympia, Make, manufacturers, mobile phones, mobile solution, PICNIC, planning application, PR, real time, suppliers, touch-screen SmartPhones, Vodafone Mobile Clicks, Web 2.0, wifi, Windows Mobile, Woobius, Woobius Eye, YouTube

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Aug 17 2009

Newforma targets the UK

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
17 August 2009

On the same day last week that I swapped emails with Knowledge Architecture’s Chris Parsons (see post), I read in AECcafe.com that New Hampshire, USA-based AEC software vendor Newforma was forming a user community in the UK (see Newforma Users Form Community in United Kingdom). Newforma hired former Excitech executive Tim Bates as a new …

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Aug 05 2009

From PLM and social media, to AEC design

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
5 August 2009

I have been monitoring conversations about social media among some manufacturing and product lifecycle management (PLM) commentators, and a post by Desktop Engineering‘s Kenneth Wong – What PLM Can Learn from Social Media – has lingered in a browser tab for most of the past two days as I’ve re-read it and pondered it. Kenneth …

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Jul 21 2009

Drop into drop.io

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
21 July 2009

I had a transatlantic meeting via Skype this afternoon with three of the people at Brooklyn, New York-based drop.io, providers of “simple real-time sharing, collaboration, and presentation”. Their Software-as-a-Service solution has already achieved some media attention in the US – though the focus to date has been on generic file-sharing rather than on enabling industry-specific …

architecture, audio, chat, collaboration, commenting, conference calling, Construction, data-sheet, documents, drawing-sharing, drop.io, drop.io Manager, drops, e-Grou, e-mail, Facebook, fax, file sharing, Firefox extension, free, FTP, images, iPaper, Kalexo, mail, mark-up, MMS, New York, online collaboration, password-protected, phone, photography, presentation, SaaS, Scribd, Skype, US, video, web, Web 2.0, white paper, Woobius
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Jul 10 2009

Google Wave and project collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, SaaS, Web 2.0
10 July 2009

I wrote on 29 May 2009 about Google Wave, and have just got round to reading a great post by my friend and fellow Be2camp co-founder Jodie Miners where she talks about Google Wave and its potential for project collaboration in the construction sector. Read her post here. Like me, she reckons that Wave is …