Tag: the Construction Network

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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Mar 11 2010

Top 10 Construction IT trends

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors, Web 2.0
11 March 2010

This is the original draft of an article I wrote that has just been published in the March 2010 issue of Construction Manager magazine (link to digital edition), alongside a bigger feature looking at the new generation of construction collaboration platforms (including Woobius, Collabor8online and SliderStudio‘s StickyWorld – all of which I’ve recently talked about …

3D, 4Projects, accounting, Aconex, APIs, Apple, archINFORM, Asite, augmented reality, BIM, BIMaaS, BIW, blog, BuildingSMART, Business Collaborator, CAD, CIOB, Collabor8online, construction collaboration, Construction Manager, contracts, CoverItLive, Daden, ERP, Gartner, GPS, internet of things, iPad, iPhone, Latista, Layar, LiveMeeting, mobile, Motion Computing, Pachube, procurement, SaaS, Second Life, Skype, SliderStudio, SlideShare, smartphone, Software-as-a-Service, StickyWorld, Tablet computing, tCn, the Construction Network, Twitter, UNIT4, Ustream, Vela Systems, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0, web conferencing, WebEx, wifi, Wikipedia, WiMax, Woobius, Woobius Eye, YouCanPlan
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Mar 02 2010

tCn – The Construction Network – launches

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Web 2.0
2 March 2010

[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 2 March 2010. A debate has been kindled in the comments section that is reminiscent of conversations around the time of the dot.com boom in 2000.] Late last year I was contacted by Ryan Briggs, one of the co-founders of a new social …