Category: Web 2.0

Oct 29 2009

Meridian user forum

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
29 October 2009

Thanks to a news release published on AECcafe.com, I have learned that Meridian Systems, US-based provider of project management solutions including Prolog and Proliance, has created an online forum for users of its products. The platform – the screenshot suggests it is essentially a discussion board – is intended to help Meridian customers collaborate and …

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Oct 29 2009

Bye-bye BT Workspace, Hello Glasscubes

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
29 October 2009

In early 2007, I wrote about BT Workspace, a Software-as-a-Service that the UK telecoms giant was offering to small and medium-sized businesses. Built on a modified version of the Microsoft SharePoint platform by US company SMBLive, BT Worskspace offered extranet-type project workplaces at a competitive price (£7.50 per company user per month; free for micro-teams …

BT Workspace, CAD, calendar, Clouds UK, Colaab, collaboration, conference call, Construction, contact management, contractual processes, CRM, drop.io, e-Grou, extranet, file sharing, Glasscubes, Glasscubes Connect, Google, Incite Toolbox, intranet, micro-blogging, Microsoft SharePoint, Outlook, project management, ShowDocument, SMBLive, SMEs, Software-as-a-Service, Twitter, whiteboard, Woobius, Yammer
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Oct 23 2009

Memoori upgrade

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Web 2.0
23 October 2009

In August 2008, I wrote about Memoori (see AEC-specific search), and having since met the company’s founder Jim McHale a few times (most recently last week), I can say the product, while still a little raw in places, is developing into a much more rounded offering. Given the wealth of generic search engine power we …

AEC, architecture, Be2camp, BIM, Bing, blogs, bookmark, browser plug-in, building information modelling, Building Schools for the Future, collaboration, Construction, Delicious, Engineering, file sharing, Flock, Google Chrome, groups, intelligent buildings, Internet Explorer, Jim McHale, Memoori, Mozilla Firefox, news, RSS, search, search engine, tagging, tweets, Twitter, Web 2.0

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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 22 2009

A first look in the Incite Toolbox

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
22 September 2009

In June (as I posted), I met Sean Kaye and Michael Baker of Australia-based construction collaboration vendor Incite. We talked about Incite’s new project collaboration tool and platform, Incite Keystone, amid a wide-ranging chat about collaboration, file-sharing, social media and other topics, and we’ve stayed in contact ever since, mainly through Twitter but also through …

AEC, architecture, Asite, Australia, batch upload, Blackberry, blogs, chat, collaboration, conference calling, Construction, desktop application, drop.io, e-Grou, Engineering, feeds, file sharing, filters, Flock browser, Google Chrome, Incite, Incite Keystone, Incite Toolbox, iPhone, Kalexo, Michael Baker, presentation, project collaboration, Sean Kaye, search engine, SMS, Social Media, storage, stream, tagging, Twitter, Web 2.0, Woobius, YouTube video
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Sep 22 2009

Asite community revisited

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
22 September 2009

Back in June, I wrote about construction collaboration vendor Asite‘s revamped website and its new social media features. Three months later, I had a quick look to see how the Asite community has been developing…. Blog posts have been a bit slow in coming. Three in June, one in July, none in August and one …

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Sep 03 2009

Good numbers from 4Projects

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
3 September 2009

Latest results, for the 12 months up to 31 March 2009, show that UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects enjoyed its most successful year to date. According to the latest returns submitted to Companies House, revenues grew 24% to £5.502m (up from £4.420m in 2008 – see 4projects turnover up a third), while pre-tax profits …

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Sep 02 2009

More design review applications

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
2 September 2009

A couple of years ago (2 March 2007, to be more precise), I noted the emergence of some marketing-related online applications, ConceptShare and ReviewBasics, that allow, for example, graphic designers to share brochure and advertising designs with their clients and other collaborators. As a marketeer, I recently looked again at this creative industries technology area …

AEC, BaseCamp, ConceptShare, construction collaboration technology, Cozimo, creative industries, DWF, DWG, DXF, graphic design, HPGL, Huddle, inmotion, LinkedIn, marketing, Ning, Octopz, ProofHQ, ReviewBasics, Social Media, Xing
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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 …