Category: Internet

Jan 17 2006

Kajima Uses Buzzsaw to Help Win PFI Projects

Been there, done that…. This Autodesk Buzzsaw news release comes some four years after Kajima found BIW was the key to PFI success (subsequently signing a corporate deal).

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Jan 17 2006

Craigslist

As a former freelance, I was interested in yesterday’s Media Guardian article, ‘I’m seriously trying to be more cynical’, about Craig Newmark, the founder of the classified advertising site, www.Craigslist.org (and its many regional offshoots, such as http://london.craigslist.org/). Newmark is rumoured to be considering an online newspaper, which may roll out this spring, and "collaborative …

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Jan 16 2006

Now traditional software is dead!

During the Christmas period, Software as a Service (SaaS) outages at TypePad and Salesforce.com (among others) prompted some to suggest the SaaS model was fatally flawed (see my 29 December post). Now, courtesy of Phil Wainewright, I read that "traditional software is already dead". He quotes, Jason Maynard, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, …

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Jan 04 2006

“Extranets” or “client workspaces”?

Beyond the architecture, engineering and construction industry, the legal profession was another field which took to ‘extranets’ in a big way. A Legal Technology News article suggests that the term may have morphed: into "client workspaces". The term may have evolved in the legal world, but I can’t see us shifting towards such a term …

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Jan 04 2006

Yorkshire broadband coverage reaches 100%

Having spent many days in various parts of Yorkshire, including holidays in some of the most remote and beautiful parts of the county, I was interested to read Silicon.com’s report, Yorkshire hits 100 per cent broadband. This doesn’t, of course, mean that everyone is using broadband – Yorkshire still has one of the lowest take-up …

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Dec 30 2005

“It’s too slow” – blame online radio

Occasionally, as vendors of web-based construction collaboration technologies, we face protests from users who say the extranet solutions are too slow (usually because they don’t offer the almost-instantaneous responsiveness of software loaded onto their hard drive or perhaps their local area network). As ASPs, we can do a lot to ensure that our applications are …

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Dec 19 2005

Christmas working

Today’s Guardian newspaper has an article suggesting that more than two in five office workers plan to log on to their work emails over the festive period (men are slightly more likely to do so, as are people living in London compared to those living in Humberside). As a blogger writing about extranets, this leads …

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Dec 09 2005

Reddit.com

I take a keen interest in the news relating to our industry, and the web has become an indispensible tool for keeping up-to-date with events in sectors that interest me. I use Newsgator to help me monitor news stories and new posts on various blogs, and – after reading this Guardian story – I have …

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Dec 02 2005

Extranets to embrace Ajax?

After reading about Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML – not scouring powder!) in Information Age last week, I was browsing Information Week online when I found this interview with a Microsoft product manager. It grabbed my attention because a) it reminded me how responsive Google Maps is, and b) it asked me to imagine that …

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Dec 01 2005

Why do insurers overlook the advantages of extranets?

Reading Silicon.com today, I was struck by a leader article: Insurers must account for disaster recovery, which argues that insurers fail to reward those businesses which take a responsible attitude to data back-up and security. Apparently, when it comes to insuring businesses with multimillion-pound liabilities, insurers often pay little or no regard to where and …

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