Today I have been hearing about redundancies among staff at one of the UK’s leading construction collaboration vendors. This news comes as no surprise. The writing has been on the wall for all the collaboration vendors since the credit crunch hit last year. Widespread project postponements and cancellations have led to corresponding reductions across the …
Category: Web 2.0
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May 29 2009
Google Wave
The web is abuzz with excitement this morning about Google Wave (see this great summary at Mashable), Google’s new real-time communication platform “coming later this year”. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management into one in-browser communication client. Already, people have started wondering about the potential of …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/05/google-wave/
May 26 2009
Constructware conundrum continues
The recent flurry of claims and rebuttals about the future of Constructware (see Constructware’s future questioned) has not convinced everybody that Autodesk remains committed to developing its Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration application Constructware. The atmosphere of uncertainty is also not helped by last week’s news (and here) that Autodesk is to lay off a further 430 …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/05/constructware-conundrum-continues/
Apr 15 2009
The internet as a lifeline for AEC SMEs
(This is a slightly updated version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog that discusses potential use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), among other tactics, for managing the impact of the recession upon SMEs in the AEC sector.) Given that most of the businesses active in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sectors are small or medium-sized …
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Apr 15 2009
A closer look at Kalexo
I have recently had two further meetings (one online and one face-to-face) regarding Kalexo’s TeamWork application (see BIM: All change, please). Steve Bogart, Kalexo’s VP of Business Development, used a Glance session to guide me through the functionality of the current version of TeamWork. I was also able to meet a current user, Stephen Boak …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/04/a-closer-look-at-kalexo/
Apr 03 2009
BIM and social media
Last month, Birmingham-based architect Rob Annable of Axis Design spoke at Ecobuild on BIM and social media (see post). The Building Sustainable Design blog has just published a guest post by Rob in which he elaborates on that presentation – it’s well worth reading. (Thanks, Rob for the Be2camp mention!)
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/04/bim-and-social-media/
Mar 23 2009
VisualTao: CAD on demand
For the third time this month (following SolidWorks and CADaaS, 2 March, and BIMserver.org: right technology, right time?, 3 March), I return to one of my favourite topics: delivering computer-aided design (CAD) solutions on a Software-as-a-Service model. I received an email from someone at an Israeli business development group, Trendlines. My correspondent had read my …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/03/visualtao-cad-on-demand/
Mar 13 2009
Red Nose Day goes Cloudy
Launched in 1985, Red Nose Day is an annual charity fund-raising programme supported by a huge range of UK organisations, schools and offices. It has even worked its magic across Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, numerous blogs and other social media – where numerous avatars, including mine, now feature temporary red noses (courtesy of DigitalRedNose.com). Among other …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/03/red-nose-day-goes-cloudy/
Mar 06 2009
A new blog, a new direction
Sharp-eyed visitors to this blog may have noticed a new RSS feed in the side-bar – from pwcom. This is my new blog focused on PR, marketing and Web 2.0, with a strong bias towards how these are used in the architecture, engineering, construction and property sectors. I have discussed Web 2.0 a lot in …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/03/a-new-blog-a-new-direction/
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