Category: Web 2.0

Aug 26 2010

Oversight on iSite

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
26 August 2010

A significant development regarding the Styles & Wood business formerly known as StoreData happened earlier this year – and I missed it! I admit I have been very busy over the last four months so haven't kept my eyes on changes affecting the UK construction collaboration software sector's smaller players (but maybe the vendor's PR …

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Aug 03 2010

OpeningDesign.com

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
3 August 2010

Partly through my involvement with Be2camp and partly because of my interests in online collaborative spaces, I was contacted by US-based architect Ryan Shultz of Studio Wikitecture to have a look at a very early, ‘alpha stage’ website concept, OpeningDesign.com. As Ryan candidly admits, this application is still experimental, and is currently a combination of …

4Projects, 99Designs, Aconex, AEC, Amonle, architect, architecture, Asite, Be2camp, BIW, collaboration, Construction, Constructware, crowd-sourcing, digital file sharing, discussion forum, Elance.com, Engineering, extranets, file sharing, intranet, John Allsopp, Kalexo, LAN, LinkedIn, NameThis.com, Ning, ODEs, online whiteboards, OpeningDesign.com, outsourcing, Ponoko, Ryan Shultz, service marketplace, SketchSpace, SliderStudio, Social Media, social network, StickyWorld.com, Studio Wikitecture, tCn, the Construction Network, UK, US, virtual companies, virtual currency, virtual team, WAN, Woobius, Workspace
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Jul 21 2010

Websites overhauled at BIW and 4Projects

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
21 July 2010

The corporate websites of UK construction collaboration technology providers 4Projects and BIW Technologies* have both been refreshed recently. Despite my past involvement with BIW, I think the changes in 4Projects’ online presence are more extensive, building on website changes that the company instigated on its subsidiaries 4Retail and 4Exergy sites last year (post). 4Projects appointed …

4Exergy, 4Projects, 4Retail, Asite, BIW Technologies, Cadweb, Clare Watson, construction collaboration technology, literature, marketing, PR, SlideShare, Social Media, Twitter, UK, Web 2.0, website
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Jul 20 2010

Site Clean-up iPhone app

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
20 July 2010

Earlier this year I met up in London with Peter Daly, founder and MD of Dublin-based software developer SmartBuilder Software Ltd, and we talked about the future of construction collaboration technologies and about mobile solutions in particular. I recently met Peter again when he talked about his first iPhone application at the Be2camp East 2 …

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Jun 29 2010

Carbon calculation

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Sustainability, Web 2.0
29 June 2010

Almost two years ago, when I was helping (un)organise the first Be2camp ‘unconference’ event in London, the sustainability theme that underpins this built environment/social media advocacy movement attracted contributions from several people with an active interest in calculating and then reducing the carbon footprint of the architecture, engineering and construction, AEC, sector (we had talks, …

AEC, Alex Albon, AMEE, architecture, Be2camp, BioRegional, built environment, carbon calculation, carbon footprint, CarbonCalculated.com, chief construction advisor, Claire Hardwick, cloud computing, commuting, compliance, consolidation centres, ConstructCO2, Construction, corporate social responsibility, credentials, CSR, design, EarthExchange, embodied emissions, energy consumption, Engineering, Evolution-ip, Fam ily Housing Association, fit-out, in-situ construction, Jamie Andrews, Jason Green, Liz Collett, logistics, London, Martin Brown, materials, off-site fabrication, Overbury, Pachube, Paul Morrell, pre-qualification questionnaires, procurement, refurbishment, smart meters, Social Media, Summerfield, sustainability, tenders, Tom Chance, unconference, Usman Haque, Vimeo, waste

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May 25 2010

CTSpace talks about FusionLive

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
25 May 2010

Last week I travelled to Brentford and the London offices of Sword CTSpace to learn more about the company’s FusionLive platform. After blogging about the product’s launch last month, I had been invited by business unit director John Pomeroy to meet some of the FusionLive team (including George Britton, Andre Gunter and Mathieu Pollet) and …

4Projects, Aconex, AJAX, Andre Gunter, API, Asite, asset data, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, BIM, BIW, Brentford, building information modelling, BuildOnline, Business Collaborator, Cable & Wireless, Cimage, content management, Documentum, Dubai, EDMS, Engineering Community, France, Fusion, FusionEnterprise, FusionLive, gadgets, George Britton, Germany, Google Mail, hosting, IBM, India, iPhone, John Pomeroy, marketing, Mathieu Pollet, Microsoft, Microsoft Outlook, migration, multi-tasking, NEC3, Novasoft, oil and gas, on-premise, Oracle, Outlook integration, Poland, PR, revenues, SaaS, screen-sharing, search engines, single sign-on, Software-as-a-Service, Sword CTSpace, Sword group, Tarmac Professional Services, UI, UK, Unit4 Collaboration Software, US, user interface, WIBNIs, workflow
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Apr 20 2010

Urban Circus

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors, Web 2.0
20 April 2010

Having earlier today written briefly about the virtual world of Second Life (Daden post) and about two Australian companies (All Over Geo post; Tender.ly post), it somehow seems fitting to write about Urban Circus. This Brisbane, Australia company (it also has a UK outpost) proclaims itself to be at “the cutting edge of 3D Virtual …

3D Virtual Reality, Australia, BIM, Brisbane, communication, community, design, Engineering, feedback, images, panoramas, Second Life, Slider Studio, transport, Urban Circus, videos, VR, Web 2.0, web environments, web-browser, YouCanPlan
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Apr 20 2010

Daden wins!

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
20 April 2010

On 9 March, I wrote (Daden showcases collaborative use of Second Life) about Daden reaching the finals of a major US-based competition to identify cutting edge implementations of Second Life. This Birmingham-based company briefly tweeted about its success, but has now issued a full press release (UK Company wins U.S. Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge), detailing …

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Apr 19 2010

CTSpace launches FusionLIVE – end of the road for BuildOnline and Citadon

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
19 April 2010

Catching up with recent announcements in the world of construction collaboration technologies, I see that Sword CTSpace has launched a new Software-as-a-Service application, FusionLive, that looks like it will eventually replace both the BuildOnline and Citadon applications inherited when Sword acquired CTSpace in December 2007 (post). The 7 April news release quotes Gert-Jan de Kieviet, …

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Apr 01 2010

The state of (construction) collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
1 April 2010

I spoke at the Collaboration Cafe symposium held at London’s Building Centre on Tuesday, 30 March. I was third speaker on, following StickyWorld and Slider Studio founder Michael Kohn and Axis Design architect Rob Annable, and my brief from Michael was straightforward: to expand on the blog post, The end of the construction collaboration era?, …