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Jan 28 2008

Why buy the cow?

Why Buy the Cow? is a book by Subrah Iyar, co-founder and general manager of WebEx, that sets out to explain the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) movement and Web 2.0. The title refers to an analogy used to describe the new generation of software vendors who, in effect, sell milk instead of forcing customers to buy cows to milk themselves. …

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Dec 13 2006

BIM – some background reading (2)

Kenneth Wong has provided another interesting review of the “The Contractors’ Guide to BIM: Edition 1,” a 48-page treatise from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). Read How Many Contractors Does It Take to Scale a Wall? at Cadalyst here (see also: previous post). tags: US, AEC, BIM, AGC

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Sep 04 2006

The email 10-to-1 rule

In A 10-to-1 rule of email based project management, Lars Plougmann neatly demonstrates one of the major problems with email in a project environment. Starting with a ten-strong team, he suggests an important change notified by email could end up with the following result: 9 people read the email 8 people file the email (in …

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Jun 29 2006

TDOC email howler

In my haste to disseminate good news, I have (very occasionally) sent an email to several contacts but forgotten to use the ‘bcc’ field so that recipients’ email addresses remained confidential – but nothing on this scale. Today, one of my colleagues received an email from a Richard Townsend-Rose at TDOC – the vendor of …

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Jun 28 2006

Newforma (again), plus AGCxml

I wrote at some length about US AEC focused EDMS vendor Newforma earlier this month. Today, courtesy of AECNewsroom, I see that Newforma Project Center has been adopted by US architectural practice HOK. It will, the article says, help HOK staff “to organize and find project information more efficiently, to share and communicate project documents …

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Jun 26 2006

Géoportail

After writing last week about Google Maps and other GPS related resources, I read in Wired today that France has launched its own satellite imaging service, Géoportail (however, when I tried to look at where I recently went on holiday, the site was unavailable due to too many users trying to access it). Géoportail has …

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Apr 20 2006

Space in the wrong place on FT

A bit off-topic, but I couldn’t help smile when my RSS reader pointed me at a Financial Times news story about a supermarket trolley manufacturer. A space in the wrong place can be embarrassing: view the photo.

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Apr 12 2006

Long overdue CICA changes (2)

Further to my 24 February post regarding the UK’s Construction Industry Computing Association, I today received a letter (though I would have thought an email would have been more appropriate for an IT organisation) from Roy Harper (chairman of the CICA Advisory Board) updating me on developments. The most significant has been the launch of …

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Mar 08 2006

Collaboration consolidation (4)

In a series of Autodesk update articles, Susan Smith at AECcafe.com underlines the Autodesk logic regarding the Constructware acquisition (see previous post): “Amar Hanspal spoke about Autodesk’s recent acquisition of Constructware. He said that Buzzsaw provides a central repository for data, its strength is in being used for design and pre-construction. It is useful in …

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