Category: Internet

Nov 15 2005

NCCTP Conference, London – impressions

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
15 November 2005

Having been involved in the organisation of today’s NCCTP conference in central London, I am slightly biassed, but I think it was the best event of its kind that I have been to. More than 90 people came to the Radisson Hotel in Portman Square to learn more about construction collaboration technologies (AKA extranets) in …

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Nov 14 2005

Google launches web analysis

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Marketing
14 November 2005

An FT news item reports that Google plans to launch a free service, Google Analytics, that measures the effectiveness of websites and online marketing campaigns – taking on existing web analysis service providers (eg: WebTrends) as it looks to buttress its online advertising activities, notably Adwords. Like most of the vendors in the UK construction …

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Nov 14 2005

AMT3D Leeds event in December

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Marketing
14 November 2005

Further to my post last month about AMT3D, I have been contacted by Peter Hayden (peterh@amt3d.com) who asks if I would like to receive a "demo CD of our model of The Calls" (I have requested one). Peter also asks if I would be interested in attending a preview of the Holbeck Urban Villagemodel that …

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Nov 14 2005

Free wireless net access for everyone

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Telecoms
14 November 2005

A Silicon.com leader asks: "Should the UK offer free wireless internet access everywhere and to everyone?" The answer seems to be "yes, but the ISPs won’t like it" – one of the anonymous commenters argues that, because of this, it won’t happen.

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Nov 11 2005

Contract Journal IT survey

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
11 November 2005

Contract Journal reports that ‘Four out of five construction firms plan increased IT spend’, according to a CJ study of 500 people conducted with Causeway Technologies. It gives a fairly positive view of construction’s attitude to IT, with some 79% saying their firms were increasing their IT spend. Process efficiency and compatibility with existing systems …

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Nov 11 2005

Islington mile-long hot-spot

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Telecoms
11 November 2005

Heading home from London St Pancras station last night, my tube train rumbled through Angel tube station. If I had wanted free wi-fi access, I could have jumped off there and walked along Upper Street. Islington Council has apparently created a mile-long wi-fi hotspot along this busy London thoroughfare – see Silicon.com article Council provides …

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Nov 10 2005

Victim of T-Mobile Hotspot

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Marketing, Telecoms
10 November 2005

Mystified by my short post yesterday? Blame the Whitehouse Hotel, Kegworth in Derbyshire (where I was staying prior to talking to the East Midlands branch of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors). While a blessed minority of hotels (and other establishments) treat their guests to free wi-fi access, the afore-mentioned hotel thinks its guests will …

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Nov 09 2005

Construction Computing Show, first day

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
9 November 2005

Met lots of familiar faces during the first day of the Construction Computing Show at the Barbican in London – not least because BIW is sharing a stand with its fellow NCCTP members. Gave a lunchtime seminar presentation with Duncan Mactear of 4Projects which seemed to go well. Pushed the NCCTP conference a bit – …

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Nov 08 2005

Cadweb say “Death to folders!”

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Vendors
8 November 2005

There are new developments afoot at Cadweb. Its latest news release quotes extensively from an Economist Technology Quarterly article which predicts the end of the nested directories of folders and files familiar to many computer users. Instead, it seems we will have built-in powerful search engines, ‘tagged files’ and ‘smart folders’. With version 7 of …

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Nov 07 2005

Mangofile

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits
7 November 2005

Ever heard of Mangofile? I hadn’t – until I followed this IT Showcase link. Apparently, Mangofile is a virtual filing cabinet solution which, when combined with a PC and scanner, can remove all the piles of paper you might have scattered around your office. One of the case studies is from UK AEC business Carillion. …