Category: Blogs

Oct 18 2006

Factors in buying software

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
18 October 2006

In “Why Do You Buy CAD Software? Survey Result (preliminary)“, Roopinder Tara of the CAD Insider blog (and the useful TenLinksDaily newsletter) gives an early indication of the key factors used in assessing CAD software for purchase – based on an online survey (still ongoing at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=891102592287). After over 120 responses, the key factors (listed in …

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Sep 27 2006

Extranet Evolution – a year old

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing
27 September 2006

Looking back at what I was doing 12 months ago, I have just realised that this blog is now been in existence for over a year (my first post was on 15 September 2005). In the first full month (October 2005), according to my StatCounter.com stats, there were a very modest 317 page-loads by 155 unique visitors. Since then numbers have …

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Aug 22 2006

Extranet E-vacation 2

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs
22 August 2006

I will be in Italy for a few days, so don’t expect m(any) updates until my return in early September.

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Aug 22 2006

Podcasts

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet, Marketing
22 August 2006

By coincidence, I found two bloggers doing their first podcasts on Friday. QSNews editor Phil Clark has done one on that most basic form of communication: speaking (click here), and SaaS pundit Philip Wainewright’s first podcast, Why Business is driving SaaS adoption, is here.

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Aug 18 2006

Tagging for Live Writer

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet
18 August 2006

Many thanks to Jimmy Bergmark for alerting me to a plug-in that overcomes the tagging gap in Microsoft Live Writer (see comments on yesterday’s post). It makes Live Writer even more attractive.

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Aug 17 2006

Windows Live Writer – first impressions

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Internet
17 August 2006

Earlier this week (see post) I downloaded Windows Live Writer. I tried it out yesterday and the first experience was very good. Having occasionally lost a draft article during preparation of long posts, I like the ‘save draft’ feature, the spell-check is a useful extra, and the big editing area is a big plus for …

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Aug 15 2006

Windows Live Writer – beta version launched

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Internet, SaaS
15 August 2006

I have been a bit sceptical about Microsoft’s ability to adapt to the Web 2.0 world, but the blogosphere reaction to its new Live Writer announcement has been very positive (see, for example, Phil Wainewright’s view). In a nutshell (and to re-use Wainewright’s original wish-list), it is: a simple utility that you can use as …

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Aug 11 2006

What You Need to Know About Web 2.0

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS
11 August 2006

Mystified by talk of Web 2.0, mashups and the like? Read Steve Apiki’s helpful article, found on the ASPnews.com site.

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Aug 08 2006

Autodesk Buzzsaw 7 released

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
8 August 2006

One of Autodesk’s DWF bloggers (there don’t appear to be any official Buzzsaw bloggers), Scott Sheppard (Beyond the Paper) says Autodesk has released a Buzzsaw version 7 update. Mainly administration improvements by the look of things, plus an updated user interface.

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Aug 08 2006

ASP, SaaS, On-demand or the “business web”?

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 August 2006

At ASPstreet, an article – What do you call your ASP? – by Minda Zetlin usefully sums up some of the debate about terminology, and proposes a term that we may hear more of in the months ahead. Zetlin points out that the term ‘ASP’ became discredited in some people’s eyes by its much-hyped associations …