Day: March 27, 2007

Citizendium is a competing wiki to Wikipedia created by one of Wikipedia’s co-founders, Dr. Larry Sanger. My regular readers know how I feel about Wikipedia. So Citizendium once populated would hopefully be my first reference point. This is what Forrester has to say. Josh Bernoff, a vice president at Forrester Research, said he sees a place for Citizendium on the social-media scene, and noted that corporations are extremely frustrated with Wikipedia’s policies. "Companies have had real challenges getting their perspective on the facts addressed in Wikipedia," he explained. "You can file a complaint but there is no real protection against…

Oracle today notified its Independent Software Vendors (ISV) of a new web site to facilitate the engagement with its ISVs. The site can be accessed through here. Extract from the official notification… There are many different ways in which you can work with Oracle. This new information portal is designed to help you to understand how you can work more effectively with Oracle in the UK, maximise your sales and marketing opportunities, ensure your business is based on the latest technology, register for events and workshops, get all the latest news relating to the ISV programme in the UK, as…

7 people turned up for the first ever OpenCoffee Manchester. Let’s have a quick look at these individuals: Ed French (Rising Stars) David Hawdale (Hawdale Associates) Manoj Ranaweera (moi!) Paul Robinson (Vagueware) Philip Hemsted (Yuuguu) Philip Oakley (Into Vision) Rhys Jones (Accountis, Sanoodi, Web2os) Except Paul and David, others have supported me before by attending NW StartUp 2.0 events. David was really the new face as I meet Paul monthly at North West Digital Communities chaired by Manchester Digital Development Agency. Many interesting areas were discussed, among these: David – scalability – how do you scale a consultancy? Co-working –…