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• Not a free press release service

  I don't republish company's press releases on this blog. Last week I received an email asking: "We are interested to publish our company news in Extranet Evolution; I could not navigate the place to find the details of how to... Read More... Posted Nov 20 2009, 03:20 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Blogs, Web 2.0

• Memoori upgrade

  In August 2008, I wrote about Memoori (see AEC-specific search), and having since met the company's founder Jim McHale a few times (most recently last week), I can say the product, while still a little raw in places, is developing... Read More... Posted Oct 23 2009, 12:02 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, AEC, Functionality, Blogs, Web 2.0

• 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

• A first look in the Incite Toolbox

  In June (as I posted), I met Sean Kaye and Michael Baker of Australia-based construction collaboration vendor Incite. We talked about Incite's new project collaboration tool and platform, Incite Keystone, amid a wide-ranging chat about collaboration... Posted Sep 22 2009, 07:05 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Blogs, Web 2.0

• Asite community revisited

  Back in June, I wrote about construction collaboration vendor Asite's revamped website and its new social media features. Three months later, I had a quick look to see how the Asite community has been developing.... Blog posts have been a... Read... Posted Sep 22 2009, 10:24 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Functionality, People issues, Extranet, Blogs, Web 2.0

• Keeping an Eye on Woobius

  I wrote about the low-cost simple collaboration application Woobius earlier this year (first here, then here), and they've remained on my radar ever since, partly because of their participation in one of this year's Be2camp events (in Liverpool... Posted Sep 14 2009, 01:07 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, BIW, Functionality, Extranet, Internet, 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

• This is the Knowledge Architecture Blog of the week!

  I received an email this morning from Chris Parsons, founder of San Francisco-based IT consultancy Knowledge Architecture, telling me that ExtranetEvolution.com was KA's Blog of Week - read his kind words about my blog here. The first KA Blog of.... Posted Aug 12 2009, 09:48 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, AEC, Blogs, Web 2.0

• From PLM and social media, to AEC design

  I have been monitoring conversations about social media among some manufacturing and product lifecycle management (PLM) commentators, and a post by Desktop Engineering's Kenneth Wong - What PLM Can Learn from Social Media - has lingered in a browser... Posted Aug 05 2009, 07:54 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, People issues, Internet, Blogs, Web 2.0

• 'Extranet' vendors getting social?

  (This is a slightly amended version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog that discusses how UK construction collaboration vendors are embracing social media as part of their communications mix.) I have spent much of the past ten years working... Read More... Posted Jul 27 2009, 07:29 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, BIW, Blogs, Web 2.0

• 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

• Asite upgrades and updates

  In contrast with the somewhat depressing tone of my last post (Gloomy times for SaaS collaboration vendors), it's good to see UK SaaS collaboration vendor Asite being upbeat. The company has just upgraded its platform with its Summer 09 release,.... Posted Jun 20 2009, 04:16 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, BIW, Functionality, Extranet, 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