Manoj Ranaweera
Who cares about ebdex’s API? You should if you want to make money!
Dave Stephens, CEO of Coupa commented on Competing with the “Open Source Way" at his Procurement Central. Extracts from his comments (modified to suit): Sourceforge has over 100,000 active opensource projects. Sometimes particular projects, gain good interest over time, like with Salesforce.com. But wait a minute, Salesforce.com isn’t an open source firm. Closed source firms […]
Niall Kennedy is leaving Microsoft – Birth of another Start-Up!
Dennis Howlett reported that Niall Kennedy is leaving Microsoft to start-up his own business, after joining Microsoft in April 2006. It is the first time I came across the existence of Niall and I like to address two points (you need to read his blog to understand why he is leaving Microsoft): Whilst companies allow […]
Mozilla Firefox is the second most popular web brower
According to Onestat.com, Mozilla Firefox is the second most widely used browser in the world. It retaines the same ranking in USA, Canada and UK. It has gained 14.07% and 16.98% market share in the USA and Canada respectively. UK market is split as follows with Microsoft IE dorminanting the market: 1. Microsoft IE 93.37 […]
Security Solutions – SSL Certificates
Whilst researching SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certification Authorities, my team (thanks Roshan) came across WhichSSL set up by Comodo Inc. Comodo claims they are the world’s second largest and fastest growing High Assurance Certification Authority. Of course everyone has heard of Verisign, but not Comodo! And their UK office is based in Manchester. So I […]
Another start-up launches ahead of ebdex
It is so frustrating to hear another start-up launching an EIPP solution ahead of ebdex. We seem to be stuck with never ending cycle of misfortunes! I will cover the story later. Technorati Tags : EIPP
Is Search Engine Optimisation dead for Google?
Many companies make money by optimising other peoples websites for search (search engine optimisation). However, google seems to favour blogs. For example, I have blogged about following companies: Yuuguu Affno Tiyga ebdex Type any of the above on google search and see where my blog appears. Usually No. 2 or 3. I know this would […]
Why would anyone select a holiday destination as a company name?
Think twice if you plan to select your favourite holiday destination as your company name (e.g. Marrakech)! Your competition suddenly include holiday industry, and everyone who blogs after visiting the place as you fight your way to No. 1 position on google.com. Unless of course, that is not important to you! In my opinion, Google […]
Sybex acquires Marrakech – Was the ROI for VCs positive?
Jason Busch at Spend Matters recently commented on Marrakech. According to the European Leaders Network, Dublin technology firm, AMT-Sybex has purchased Marrakech, for an undisclosed sum. According to Marrakech’s website, it’s investors include: Doughty Hanson & Co Cross Atlantic Capital Partners Crucible Corporation Gartmore Group AMT · SYBEX Group In Mar 2006, I had the […]
UK CEOs bloglist
Just came across a list of UK CEOs who blog. I must say I only know David Terrar from the list. Richard Charkin, Chief Executive, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., blogging since December 12, 2005 Perry de Havilland, Partner, the Big Blog Company – blogging since June 6, 2003 Dave Jennings, CEO, Envigour Systems Ltd. – blogging […]
Saas Vs ASP
There is a significant confusion on the acronyms SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and ASP (Applications Service Provider). David Terrar, Managing Director of D2C and Twinfield UK attempts to resolve this issue once and for all. When it comes to definitions, the first place I usually look at is Wikipedia. Here is its definition: Software as a Service […]