Manoj Ranaweera

Have you ever wondered about your identity whilst surfing the Internet? Here is an opportunity to learn from the specialists in the field thanks to Simon Grice. The event attempts to answer the following questions: My digital identity is an asset, but who owns it? What is Digital Identity? Why is it so important? Trust. […]

Over the next several months, I will spend all my energy at Causeway Technologies, which is led by Phil Brown. Causeway Technologies is a specialist software solution provider in the construction industry. Tradex is Causeway Technologies’ document exchange platform, which has number of similarities to ebdex Document Exchange. My role is simple – help Tradex […]

I took a decision to suspend the operations of ebdex, which I founded in late 2004. The decision was not taken lightly, but was inevitable given the level of difficulties ebdex faced with its development partner, Affno. I cannot go into more details at present due to legal advice. So what would become of ebdex? […]

A shopping experience like no other (thanks Mike for the link). Enjoy! Tags: supermarket 2.0, glumbert.com

Vinod Khosla                Eckart Wintzen        Jeremy Leggett    Richard Barrington It was only yesterday I was speaking to David at OpenCoffee Manchester about setting up a business to track "carbon neutrality companies", etc. Look what I found in my inbox this morning: It has not escaped the notice of many in the venture world that cleantech has […]

According to Master blogger, Dennis Howlett, CedarOpenAccounts has acquired Version One. Dennis has got the information first hand from Mark Lane, leader of CedarOpenAccounts‘ M&A team. Here is a link to the story.  It was not too long ago that I spoke to Tony Bray of Version One about cashing in his investment. But this […]

I was expecting 4 attendees this morning for the second OpenCoffee Manchester event but only 3 turned up at the end. Here is the list of attendees: David Hawdale (Hawdale Associates) Manoj Ranaweera (moi!) Paul Robinson (Vagueware) David had some interesting ideas around "green" and "free style" themes. We spoke about how these can be […]

Is anyone interested in creating and donating a logo for NW Start Up 2.0? Or is anyone interested in sponsoring a graphics designer to create a logo? I am inspired by the logo created for OpenCoffee – simple but highly effective. In return, I can give credit on the NW Start Up 2.0 web site. […]

This is quite obvious but I thought of spelling it out. Conversation is great, but there must be objectives and expected outcomes from all these events I am engaged in. The ideal moment for me would be: A new product was launched A new company was formed Seed capital was raised By individuals who have […]

Sri Lanka’s score was never enough to beat the South Africans, but Malinga made a difference by taking 4 wickets from 4 balls. Wow! Tags: Sri Lanka vs South Africa 2007, Lasith Malinga, Cricket World Cup 2007