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• tCn - The Construction Network - launches

  [This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 2 March 2010. A debate has been kindled in the comments section that is reminiscent of conversations around the time of the dot.com boom in 2000.] Late last... Read More... Posted Mar 02 2010, 05:09 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, AEC, Business/Financial, Blogs, Web 2.0

• "BIW on the back foot?"

  Nathan Doughty yesterday interrupted a long silence on his Free Collaboration blog to post some details of the latest filings to the UK's Companies House by [my former employer*] BIW Technologies (see BIW on the back foot?). He references this...... Posted Jan 11 2010, 06:08 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, BIW, People issues, Extranet, Blogs

• SaaS as a software protection strategy

  Reading WorldCAD Access and The CAD Industry blogs this morning, I learned about the latest developments in a court case brought by Autodesk to stop an eBay trader, Tim Vernor, from selling second-hand CAD software. Ignoring the complex issues relating... Posted Oct 02 2009, 08:54 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Legal, Blogs

• BuildOnline's UK downward drift

  Partly out of historical interest, I continue to monitor the company reporting of BuildOnline, a construction collaboration technology vendor which is now part of the French-owned Sword Group, today trading as Sword CTSpace and offering a portfolio of... Posted Sep 03 2009, 03:05 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, People issues, Extranet, Internet, Blogs

• How boom went bust at the click of a mouse

  I've chronicled the slide of BuildOnline in a number of blog posts over the past four years (notably Investing in a dot.com/SaaS business: a history), and the losses suffered by the early BO investors have clearly been shared by numerous... Read More... Posted Jul 27 2009, 09:34 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Blogs

• INCITE insight

  Just before I went on holiday (Menorca, very nice ), I had lunch in London with Sean Kaye and Michael Baker, respectively CEO and General Manager, Technology of Australia-based construction collaboration vendor Incite. I blogged about Incite a couple... Posted Jul 08 2009, 02:47 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality, Blogs, Web 2.0

• Putting the social into AEC development

  I have been following posts on a blog hosted by PTC, a vendor of product development technology solutions to 'discrete manufacturers'. Its product lifecycle management (PLM) applications are widely used in the industrial, high-tech, aerospace... Posted Jun 22 2009, 12:17 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, People issues, Blogs, Web 2.0

• Gloomy times for SaaS collaboration vendors

  Today I have been hearing from well-placed sources that Sunderland, UK-based construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has started a wave of redundancies (I've no idea of the scale of the downsizing - 4Projects had about 44 staff this time last... Posted Jun 05 2009, 12:42 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, AEC, Business/Financial, BIW, People issues, Blogs, Web 2.0