Manoj Ranaweera

Much awaited OpenCoffee Club has gone live on Ning. I have requested Saul to add Manchester to the growing list of locations. Current locations include: London Open Coffee Club Paris Open Coffee Club Amsterdam Open Coffee Club Brighton Open Coffee Club Palo Alto Open Coffee Club Dublin Open Coffee Club Cork Open Coffee Club Zagreb […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Deskom is another innovative electronic document exchange, allowing seamless exchange of structured documents between Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Deskom has further developed their solution to include invoice factoring module, assisting with supplier working capital management. Advanced functionality provided includes validation of documents, document matching, on-line payments and on-line factoring. In addition, it has a […]

How hard is it to find 11 cricketers from a population of over 1 billion? Here is how one Indian felt about his team’s demise. Here are the wickets: Billa, after all I think I will remain as a Sri Lankan now. Tags: India, Sri Lanka, Cricket World Cup 2007, Sri Lanka vs India World […]

Local VC, Ed French of Rising Stars (Enterprise Ventures) has launched a wiki, Techgain.net Tech Start-ups Wiki. According to Ed: This wiki is intended to serve as a repository for information and advice for Technology Startups, particularly those based in the UK. Please feel free to edit the contents and improve it for those who […]

In addition to running the e-sourcing forum, Iasta has launched eSourcingWiki. According to the home page: eSourcingWiki is an open content community of strategic sourcing and procurement best practices. This wiki is intended to be a dynamic document that constantly adjusts and transforms to current trends and thought leadership in supply management. Iasta welcomes global […]

Congratulations to Anish and Phil for making to the Techscape’s 25 UK web 2.0 startups to watch for in 2007. Here is the list: 1. Garlik (www.garlik.com)2. Tape It Off The Internet (www.tapeitofftheinternet.com)3. OnOneMap (http://ononemap.com)4. WeHangHere (www.wehanghere.com)5. MailSpaces (www.mailspaces.com)6. Webjam (www.webjam.com)7. Zopa (www.zopa.com)8. Design The Time (www.design-the-time.com)9. YesnomayB (www.yesnomayb.co.uk)10. Mobizines (www.mobizines.com)11. Ebeebo (www.ebeebo.com)12. Sleevenotez (www.sleevenotez.com)13. […]

Coda recently unveiled Project Neon, which has cost them around £6m and nearly 100 man-years to develop. It’s identified as a suite of accounting, procurement, invoice matching, asset management and workflow management applications. Its web browser architected and web services enabled. Few claims that is worth discussing: Integrate with any ERP or finance system – […]