Category: Web 2.0

Oct 17 2008

Business and Web 2.0

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, People issues, Web 2.0
17 October 2008

An article in Information Age, Web 2.0 adoption faces workplace challenges (online here), says that while Web 2.0 technologies continue to penetrate the enterprise (see graph), many companies are encountering difficulties when trying to implement the disparate technology sets. A McKinsey survey of 1988 executives suggests that tools such as wikis, blogs and social networks …

blogs, collaboration, Enterprise, Information Age, knowledge management, McKinsey survey, social networks, Web 2.0, wikis

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Oct 17 2008

Beware of the trolls

By Paul Wilkinson in People issues, Web 2.0
17 October 2008

In the internet sense of the word, a troll, according to Wikipedia, is “someone who posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.” I have …

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/10/beware-of-the-trolls/

Oct 08 2008

Junk the myths

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, Web 2.0
8 October 2008

For the past week or more, I have been carrying around a newspaper cutting from the 29 September edition of The Guardian: a Media Guardian article by Professor Jeff Jarvis of the City University of New York (and the buzzmachine.com blog). I’ve finally got round to reading it properly and it’s fantastic stuff. In the …

Be2camp, bloggers, buzzmachine.com, City University of New York, Guardian, internet, Jeff Jarvis, journalists, myths, Web 2.0, Wikipedia

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/10/junk-the-myths/

Oct 07 2008

@NCEmagazine over-Tweets

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing, Web 2.0
7 October 2008

A few weeks ago, I noticed (Construction gets Twittering) that UK trade magazine New Civil Engineer had started using Twitter to send out news alerts. At first, it was blasting about a dozen every hour, on the hour, but it then slowed it down a bit – to just five an hour, every hour…. I …

@CNPlus, @NCEmagazine, Be2camp, Construction, Emap, New Civil Engineer, Social Media, Suzie Daniels, Twitter, Twitterfeed, UK
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Oct 02 2008

Choose your “better way”

By Paul Wilkinson in Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Web 2.0
2 October 2008

I have written about the Cabinet Office’s Show Us a Better Way competition a few times now – following its launch and then highlighting a couple of interesting ideas (Urban BIM and TfL mashup). The competition attracted around 500 entries and closed at midnight on 30 September, and we now have the chance to cast …

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/10/choose-your-better-way/

Sep 19 2008

Relevance – not sheep!

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, ROI/benefits, Web 2.0
19 September 2008

Ever since I first got interested in what we now understand loosely as Web 2.0, I have been looking for ways to make it relevant to my day-to-day job. For example, I started blogging three years ago to create an online presence to expand on the content of my book (flyer); at BIW, I have …

AEC, architecture, Be2camp, blogging, climate change, collaboration, collaborative working, discussion forums, engineering and construction, Facebook, Google Maps, LinkedIn, Martin Brown, networking, RSS, Second Life, Throwing Sheep, Tim O'Reilly, timelines, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis
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Sep 16 2008

TfL mashup idea

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Web 2.0
16 September 2008

While looking for ideas for topics at Be2camp, I came across another cool suggestion on Show Us a Better Way, the UK Cabinet Office’s Web 2.0 competition site for ideas to unlock the potential of publicly-held information (see posts here and here). James O’Malley has suggested opening up Transport for London (TfL) data and making …

Be2camp, Google Maps, James O'Malley, Oyster Card, Show Us a Better Way, TfL, Transport for London, Web 2.0, Yahoo Fire Eagle

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/09/tfl-mashup-idea/

Sep 02 2008

Google enters browser battle

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS, Web 2.0
2 September 2008

When I was finalising my book manuscript in early 2005, around 94 per cent of all web users used Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but as I noted on this blog later that year, other browsers – notably Mozilla’s Firefox – were beginning to nibble away at IE’s dominance (see Webware post for latest stats). And earlier …

blogosphere, browser, Chrome, Firefox, Flock, Google, graphics, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla, multimedia, open standards, web applications

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/09/google-enters-browser-battle/

Sep 02 2008

Urban BIM

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Web 2.0
2 September 2008

Two months ago, I wrote about Show Us a Better Way, the UK Cabinet Office’s Web 2.0 competition for ideas to unlock the potential of publicly-held information. The flow of ideas shows no signs of stopping, and while some ideas are repeated, there are occasional gems. Today, I noted a suggestion from a Michael Blom …

3D, architects, attributes, BIM, builders, building information modelling, BuildingSMART, Cabinet Office, electricians, Google Earth, IFC, industry foundation class, KML converter, Michael Blom, nD, Show Us a Better Way, UK, Web 2.0, XML
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Sep 01 2008

Construction gets Twittering

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, Sustainability, Web 2.0
1 September 2008

On Friday afternoon, I got my first Tweets from UK trade magazines Construction News and New Civil Engineer, as two of the Emap Construct titles took their first steps into the Web 2.0 world of Twitter. Initially, @CNPlus went into overdrive repeating itself several times over but it’s now sorted out an RSS problem with …