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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

• Project Bluestreak

  Autodesk's AEC division has just launched an experimental BIM collaboration environment, Project Bluestreak, aimed at "accelerating building information modeling through the open exchange of design information and ideas between desktop applications... Posted Nov 23 2009, 10:50 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Web 2.0

• Collaboration at heart of future ICT, says SCRI

  (This is a slightly amended version of a post from my pwcom2.0 blog.) This morning I discovered a SCRI Research Report, Future Generation of IT (PDF), published in June and reporting on discussions held at a 'vision planning workshop' hosted.... Posted Nov 02 2009, 03:45 PM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, AEC, SaaS, People issues, Internet, Web 2.0

• Coming soon: tender.ly

  Found through a Twitter connection: It's almost ready. tender.ly is elegant and powerful web-based software, for Architecture, Engineering and Construction companies to conduct their tendering for suppliers and subcontractors. It's software that... Posted Oct 01 2009, 11:58 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Web 2.0

• 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

• 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

• Google Wave

  The web is abuzz with excitement this morning about Google Wave (see this great summary at Mashable), Google's new real-time communication platform "coming later this year". It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat... Posted May 29 2009, 09:06 AM by Extranet Evolution Filed under: Collaboration, Future, Vendors, AEC, SaaS, Functionality, Internet, Web 2.0