Category: Blogs

May 07 2008

Breeding toxins from dead PCs

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Marketing, Sustainability
7 May 2008

I am off later this afternoon to Think 08 sustainability event at the ExCel in east London (which I can just see through the haze across the River from where I live in south-east London) – where (time-permitting) I also hope to meet up with two or three fellow bloggers (see iSite post). While on …

bloggers, Computer Aid International, e-waste treatment company, Environment Agency, Excel, Guardian, iSite, old PCs, sustainability, Think 08, Tony Roberts, toxic impact
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May 01 2008

Another provider blog

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
1 May 2008

A comment from US construction collaboration technology provider e-Builder‘s CEO Jon Antevy on my recent post, Getting Won Over, includes a link to his own blog – with the snappy (not) title “Construction Project Management and Collaboration” – begun late last year. By my reckoning that makes five blogs from construction collaboration technology vendors (in date order): …

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Apr 30 2008

Microsoft: SaaS update

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS
30 April 2008

It’s difficult to avoid talk of Microsoft at the moment, what with talk of its (stalled?) bid for Yahoo (post) and recent falling profits; what interested me last week was news of Microsoft beginning trials of web-based Office, and its later Live Mesh announcement. Here’s a quick update…. Web-based Office According to the Times: Microsoft is poised …

Aconex, Excel, Google Docs, Leigh Jasper, Live Mesh, Microsoft, Office suite, PowerPoint, SaaS, web-based Office, Word, Yahoo

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Apr 20 2008

UK bid-rigging scandal

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Legal
20 April 2008

Before I went on holiday, there was speculation about how many companies would be identified by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading as being involved in construction bid-rigging (see Contract Journal for some background). On Thursday, it was revealed that 112 companies had been accused of rigging thousands of public sector contracts worth billions of pounds, including …

Balfour Beatty, best value, bid-rigging, blogs, Carillion, collaborative working, Constructing Excellence, frameworks, lowest price tendering, Office of Fair Trading, partnering, smartphone, whole life costing

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Apr 15 2008

Extranet Evolution on holiday

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs
15 April 2008

Wondered why there have been no posts recently? Well, I am in southern Italy for a few days holiday (trying to ignore the incoming emails until I get back).

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Mar 04 2008

Microsoft gets SaaS-y(ish)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS
4 March 2008

If you read some of the online computing sites, you will already know that Microsoft – already involved in a project to take-over Yahoo to counter the Google threat and improve its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) credentials (see post) – is making moves to address the SaaS market opportunity. SME offerings of SaaS services got a lukewarm response from …

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Feb 06 2008

Undersea hassles

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet, SaaS, Telecoms
6 February 2008

Apart from what I call the Mihoogle (Microsoft/Yahoo/Google) situation (see previous post), software and internet issues also hit the mainstream media headlines last week following damage to undersea cables linking large parts of the internet. As BIW has expanded internationally, such problems have also affected our business: until Indian-based ISPs could reroute traffic around the Egypt …

BIW, Dubai, Google, Microsoft, Mihoogle, Nicholas Carr, undersea cables, Vadodara, Yahoo

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Jan 29 2008

SaaS and construction collaboration in 2008 (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
29 January 2008

Here, at long last, are my final two predictions for 2008 (see numbers one, two and three). 4. Recession to have impact upon the collaboration technology market With gloomy economic predictions almost daily at the moment, it is pretty safe to predict that any UK recession will have impacts upon the construction collaboration technology market, …

blogs, collaboration, Construction, folksonomies, meta-data, Microsoft, Middle East, R&D, recession, SaaS, SharePoint, social networking, Software-as-a-Service, UK, Web 2.0, wikis
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Jan 22 2008

IT project failures: SaaS to the rescue

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS
22 January 2008

Hardly a month goes by, it seems, without news of yet another government IT project running late, going over-budget or not working as it was envisaged. High time then that public agencies switched from conventional software to Software-as-a-Service. Not just my opinion, but also one shared by a senior US official in the Bush administration …

collaboration, Construction, government IT project, IT Project Failure, Karen Evans, laptop, Michael Krigsman, Ministry of Defence, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, White House

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Jan 03 2008

2008: SaaS will soar, SaaS will surge

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, SaaS
3 January 2008

SaaS Bloggers’ 2008 predictions have started to emerge. Jeff Kaplan has written his Top Ten Reasons Why On-Demand Services Will Soar in 2008, quickly followed by Phil Wainewright‘s Eight reasons why SaaS will surge in 2008, and the picture is very positive. Despite forecasts of a recession, both Jeff and Phil suggest economic factors will favour SaaS. Jeff writes: “… …