Category: Internet

Mar 02 2007

Viewing design visuals

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
2 March 2007

When I first started working in marketing in the construction industry 20 years ago (for Halcrow in Hammersmith), working with a graphic design consultancy involved motorbike couriers delivering artwork mounted on foamcard boards. A few years later, we began to use PDFs asynchronously (batting comments and revisions backwards and forwards until we reached a final version we …

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Feb 26 2007

CAD collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Telecoms, Vendors
26 February 2007

Earlier this month, I mentioned New Zealand-based David Harrisons’ Stress-Free blog. In a more recent, long post entitled CAD Collaboration, he discusses the challenge of collaborating around CAD models. He gives a good outline of how teams have used technology to share CAD information to date, including the use of what he calls “external document management”. …

4Projects, Adept, AEC, Asite, Autodesk, Bentley ProjectWise, BIW, blog, Buzzsaw, CAD, collaboration, Constructing Excellence, Construction, David Harrison, Eskudos, IFC, National Platform for the Built Environment, Project Divercity, Stress-free, VDEFT
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Feb 25 2007

Data security – SaaS: the sooner the better!

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet, SaaS
25 February 2007

Your data: safe in your hands? is the title of a blog posting from SaaS expert Philip Wainewright. It succinctly punctures some of the empty claims made by sceptics of the on-demand approach. He finishes: “If you value the security of your data, then the sooner you hand it over to Google or some other …

Google, on-demand, Philip Wainewright, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service

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Feb 21 2007

Disappearing domains

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Internet, Marketing
21 February 2007

Sorting out some old website bookmarks on my home PC, I found a few construction IT and e-business ones dating back, in some cases, to 2000 (ie: before the dot.com bubble burst in 2001). Since then, numerous businesses have merged, rebranded or simply disappeared; for example: Architec.net – “page cannot be displayed” Bidcom – merged into Citadon, which …

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Feb 09 2007

First Blogs, then splogs, now flogs (and CJ)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Internet, Marketing
9 February 2007

This week’s issue of UK public relations trade magazine, PR Week, has a ‘blog special’ feature, and a front-page headline, Fake bloggers to be exposed. This says: “PR professionals who pose as customers to blog for clients could soon find themselves named and shamed by Trading Standards, and even face civil court proceedings.” (From a …

AEC, blog, blogging, Building magazine, Contract Journal, flog, PR Week, splog, UK
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Feb 08 2007

Bubbl.us

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet
8 February 2007

Anyone who has sat next to me in meetings will have noticed that I use mind-maps to scribble my notes, though I have occasionally got the laptop out and used mind-mapping software. However, give me an internet connection at our next meeting and you may find me using Bubbl.us. It’s a bit clunky in places …

Bubbl.us, mind-maps

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Feb 05 2007

Design review tools

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing
5 February 2007

The past week has seen some blogging about design review tools from two of the AEC CAD heavyweights: Bentley and Autodesk. Bentley has announced (29 January) the release of ProjectWise Navigator – “the first visual collaboration client for design review and analysis plus work packaging that fully supports iterative workflows and reuse of all content throughout …

AEC, Autodesk, Bentley, CAD, collaboration, design review, ProjectWise Navigator
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Feb 01 2007

On-demand embraced – and not just CRM

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, SaaS
1 February 2007

Numerous industry articles about On-demand applications or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) have taken Salesforce.com’s customer relationship management (CRM) as the key exemplar of take-up, but there are signs that corporations are also keen to take up other types of on-demand software. Phil Wainewright blogs (Large organizations embrace on-demand – and not just CRM) about market research from …

CRM, project management, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service

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Feb 01 2007

PDF to become ISO standard

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Functionality, Future, Internet
1 February 2007

Cadalyst reports that Adobe intends to release the full PDF (portable document format) v1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization). It is, says Adobe’s Kevin Lynch, “the next logical step in the evolution of PDF from de facto standard to a formal, …

Adobe, AIIM, DWF, ISO, PDF, standard

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Jan 29 2007

Online collaboration via Vyew

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
29 January 2007

I blogged last year about JotSpot’s wiki product (acquired by Google). Another tool in the similar area is Vyew, a web conferencing solution (mentioned by Lars Plougmann). I like the idea of being able to share documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, etc online with mark-up, whiteboarding, and text-chat all enabled via a standard browser. And best of all, it’s currently …