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• Top 10 Construction IT trends

  This is the original draft of an article I wrote that has just been published in the March 2010 issue of Construction Manager magazine (link to digital edition), alongside a bigger feature looking at the new generation of construction collaboration..... Posted Mar 11 2010, 01:10 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, BIW, Functionality, People issues, Internet, Web 2.0, Telecoms

• Still keeping an Eye on Woobius

  I met up with Bob Leung from Woobius a couple of times last week (including at the launch of StickyWorld's Collaboration Cafe at London's Building Centre - pwcom post), and he updated me on progress with Woobius Eye (see post).... Read More..... Posted Mar 10 2010, 10:53 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Web 2.0

• Daden showcases collaborative use of Second Life

  On 25 February, Martin Brown and I talked to the Black Country Constructing Excellence Club about use of social media in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. We both mentioned the virtual world of Second Life and, being in..... Posted Mar 09 2010, 11:06 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, AEC, Functionality, Web 2.0

• 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

• Maybe there's a SaaS for that?

  Writing a "ten construction IT trends" feature for a UK construction publication this week, I found myself reflecting again on tablet PCs (partly stimulated by the launch of Apple's iPad), and on the rise and rise of smartphones. I found... Posted Feb 27 2010, 12:40 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Telecoms

• StickyWorld and the 'Collaboration Cafe'

  About 18 months ago I met Slider Studio architect Michael Kohn when he presented at the first Be2camp event I co-organised, at London's Building Centre. I have remained in contact with him ever since (he spoke about principles of democratic... Read... Posted Feb 23 2010, 11:34 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, People issues, Web 2.0

• Woobius simplifies pricing of “simply simple” collaboration solution

  Since I first came across UK-based low cost file-sharing and collaboration vendor Woobius in April last year, I have kept tabs on their development. [Disclosure: I have also undertaken occasional paid PR consultancy projects for the company.] Their latest... Posted Feb 22 2010, 11:29 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, People issues, Extranet

• Collabor8online: talking low-cost collaboration

  I had a long telephone chat on Friday with Colin Barnes (right), founder of Collabor8online (see post), a little over two months since the construction collaboration solution's UK launch. Colin explained that Collabor8online was very much targeted... Posted Feb 01 2010, 01:14 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, BIW, People issues, Extranet

• Exit Business Collaborator - enter UNIT4 Collaboration Software Ltd

  With the parent company, Unit 4 Agresso NV, announcing a groupwide name change to UNIT4, UK construction collaboration technology vendor Business Collaborator will be rebranded as Unit4 Collaboration Software Ltd with effect from 1 February (see news... Posted Jan 28 2010, 12:15 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS

• Glasscubes updates interface

  I wrote about Glasscubes last October (post), and have just received an email from Rob Hallums telling me about a new, more intuitive user interface to the application (read his blog post). There are changes to the navigation to create... Read More..... Posted Jan 26 2010, 10:27 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, SaaS, Functionality

• Filegenius - yet more low-cost file-sharing targeting AEC

  Last week, I had lunch with a long-time friend in the construction collaboration technology sector, and we talked about low and no-cost file-sharing. It is, we agreed, easy to take a generic file-sharing system and claim that it is invaluable... Read... Posted Jan 25 2010, 11:04 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, Functionality

• 20% of firms will own no IT assets by 2012

  A fifth of enterprises will hold no IT assets by 2012 as cloud computing and mobile working practices become commonplace, Gartner predicts (reports Information Age). Technologies such as 'cloud computing' and virtualisation within the enterprise... Posted Jan 21 2010, 04:49 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Telecoms

• First Toolbox, now Teambox

  Last September I blogged about Incite's new application Toolbox, and - courtesy of ReadWriteWeb - I have now come across a strikingly similar application with a strikingly similar name: Teambox, which describes itself as a Twitter-like project collaboration... Posted Jan 19 2010, 11:55 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Web 2.0

• The Bricsnet interview

  Having been impressed by Bricsnet's marketing during the dot.com boom years, I followed developments sporadically (mainly because the ProjectCenter extranet product was not heavily marketed in the UK), and have only mentioned the company in this blog... Posted Jan 18 2010, 09:20 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality, Extranet, Internet

• Still coming soon: tender.ly

  In October last year, I chanced upon tender.ly, "web-based software, for Architecture, Engineering and Construction companies to conduct their tendering for suppliers and subcontractors". The service, from Sydney-Australia-based Constrex, was... Posted Jan 18 2010, 08:10 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Marketing, Future, Vendors, AEC, Business/Financial, SaaS, Functionality