Category: Internet

May 28 2008

Twice as green?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Internet, Marketing, Sustainability
28 May 2008

About a month ago, I received a copy of the first issue of Green I.T. magazine, a new publication from the publishers of Construction Computing (the latest to target sustainability issues in the business world – see my Think 08 post). The magazine is being "distributed every quarter to 70,000 IT professionals", but I've now …

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May 28 2008

Microsoft SaaS strategy “a work in progress”

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Marketing, SaaS
28 May 2008

According to the latest assessment from Springboard Research, the strategy of 'Software plus services' being pursued by Microsoft is still "a work in progress". Drawing on insights gained at the Microsoft's Asia Pacific Analyst Summit last month (when it announced Windows Live and Microsoft Online – see post), Springboard says it expects "Microsoft to struggle …

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May 27 2008

Egan: 10 years on (again)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
27 May 2008

It seems hardly a week goes by at the moment without someone talking about what has (or – more likely – hasn't) changed in the UK construction industry in the ten years since Sir John Egan produced his report, Rethinking Construction. A couple of weeks ago, Building magazine produced a depressing feature, “Egan 10 years …

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May 23 2008

Test Windows Live Writer

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet
23 May 2008

After noticing some issues with how my posts from an 18-month-old version of Live Writer to TypePad were being handled (titles not appearing, and selected categories being rendered as sequences of numbers), I am trying to narrow down the causes. I suspect it’s been caused by updates at TypePad (my Flock editor get similar results), …

blog editor, Flock, Live Writer, TypePad
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May 23 2008

BuildLondonLive – update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS, Sustainability
23 May 2008

The BuildLondonLive event I mentioned last week is taking shape. I’ve just had an email from Nick Nisbet saying this latest BIMStorm project’s website now features “a great movie” and some information about the target site (judging from the images, it looks like it’s a riverside site between Greenwich Peninsula and the Thames Barrier – …

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May 22 2008

3D anyone?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Sustainability
22 May 2008

Interested in 3D? My friend Martin Brown (iSite) will be participating in 3DCamp, an event in Limerick this weekend: "a themed Barcamp which will focus on virtual worlds (Second Life, the Metaverse), mirror worlds (Google Earth and Virtual Earth), mapping mashups, GPS, Location based Services (LBSs), haptics (eg. Wiimote hacks), 3D modelling (Blender, Sketchup) and …

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May 20 2008

CTSpace website taking shape

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
20 May 2008

As mentioned last week, the new CTSpace website is taking shape, adopting the ‘look and feel’ of the parent Sword Group website, and with a new CTSpace logo incorporating the words “A Sword Group Company”. It’s a good-looking site – I like the animated photographs on the home page. CTSpace claims 135,000 users (though this …

AEC specific template, BuildOnline, business intelligence, business process automation, Citadon, cost management, CTSpace, document management, SaaS, statistics, survey, Sword group, UK, US, ViaNovus, website

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May 19 2008

Testing Flock blog tool

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Internet
19 May 2008

For some months, I have been a happy user of Microsoft’s Live Writer as an offline blogging tool and have been using the Flock browser. Now – and partly because fellow blogger Phil Clark at ZeroChampion has become a Flock user – I have started investigating how well Flock’s built-in editing tool works with my …

blogging, Delicious, Facebook, Flock browser, Live Writer, Microsoft, RSS, Twitter
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May 16 2008

Tender points

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Legal
16 May 2008

Reading the latest construction weeklies, Construction News has a column (not yet online) from Neil Jarrett of the Collaborative Working Centre explaining how collaborative working will address the problem of bid-rigging, advocating open book cost management (to give greater visibility of real costs and make it difficult for contractors to benefit from collusion) and frameworks (to …

bid-rigging, Collaborative Working Centre, Construction News, Contract Journal, frameworks, Humphrey Lyttelton, logo, Neil Jarrett, OFT, OGC, open book cost management, tender, The Foreman

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May 16 2008

CTSpace website to launch shortly?

By Paul Wilkinson in Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
16 May 2008

Changes afoot regarding the long overdue CTSpace website (see previous posts here and here), though the work doesn’t yet appear to be complete (some pages appear just to be text-dumps from the old site; many don’t have a CTSpace URL – just an IP address). Expect the new Sword-style site to be relaunched shortly.