Category: Internet

Jun 14 2006

Gmap pedometer

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Internet
14 June 2006

As a keen cyclist I sometimes compare routes with other cyclists. One friend told me about a route and sent me a link to Gmap Pedometer (the tool is also used by runners), and I’ve now started using it to share routes or to give directions to people (how to find a particular construction site, …

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Jun 09 2006

Newforma flooded

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
9 June 2006

In my Newforma post yesterday, I touched on the reduced risk for a project team that uses an external hosting service to manage its application and data. Newforma might appreciate the value of such a service themselves having just suffered a major flood at their Manchester, New Hampshire basement offices.

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Jun 08 2006

Newforma Project Center

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 June 2006

In the US, Randall Newton at AECnews.com has been talking to the people at Newforma who, on 1 June, launched Newforma Project Center – a client/server based system that sits inside an organisation’s firewall. The product is "designed to help project managers and team members gain control over their burgeoning and complex project information". This …

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Jun 08 2006

Google Spreadsheets

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Internet
8 June 2006

The latest Google tool aimed at sharing information within workteams could end the constant exchange of updated Excel spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets (see link at http://labs.google.com/) allows me to import an existing Excel spreadsheet and then share it with any of my colleagues, even ones that may not have Excel on their PCs. It’s still at …

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Jun 07 2006

Microsoft pulls PDF publishing from Vista

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Vendors
7 June 2006

In Construction Collaboration Technologies: The Extranet Evolution, I talked about file formats and the increasingly common practice of publishing drawings and other documents in the Adobe PDF format. That trend may be about to change, with another document format just over the horizon. At AECnew.com, Randall Newton says: "the ability to publish directly to PDF …

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Jun 07 2006

Trading hub alliance

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Vendors
7 June 2006

Asite shareholder, CTO and blogger Nathan Doughty talks about the Hub Alliance, a joint venture between Asite, Causeway and Burns. During May he says the Asite trading hub handled "just over 497,000 live business transactions (order/invoice) processed – each representing spend and delivery of real goods on UK projects". With no comparable figures from the …

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Jun 06 2006

Construction Computing 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
6 June 2006

Just received an email from Craig Molloy at BTC confirming the dates of the Construction Computing 2006 show. It will on 8th and 9th November at the Barbican exhibition centre, London. This year’s event will apparently be co-located with the Bentley User Community Conference; I expect this will ensure a good number of designers among …

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May 19 2006

Bentley Unveils ProjectWise StartPoint

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
19 May 2006

There are a few Bentley ProjectWise users in the UK architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market (about seven years ago, in my freelance days, I wrote a case study for the UK’s IT Best Practice Programme about how architect Damond Lock Grabowski was using the system). Will the latest news from Bentley see that number …

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May 18 2006

Overcoming ‘Islands of information’

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, People issues
18 May 2006

When comparing traditional project team-working and working using web-based collaboration platforms, a phrase I frequently use in presentations is "islands of information" (the same phrase I have just seen used on the Innovation Weblog). In the context of construction projects, I use the term to describe individuals and companies who, due to the predominantly paper-based …

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May 17 2006

Changes at BuildOnline? (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, People issues, Vendors
17 May 2006

It’s never a dull moment at BuildOnline – every few months, they move things around and change some job-titles. Having made a few changes in October 2005, then again in December, today we noticed from BO’s main website that Stuart Lander had lost his crown as the grand-sounding "President, Americas" (before that he was managing …