Sam Sethi of TechCrunch UK just reported the above event I have been blogging about for number of weeks now. Sam has kindly arranged for Imran Ali, the deputy to the Director of Orange’s Technology Research team (based out of Leeds) as the keynote speaker. There will also be a panel with Q&A sessions. Further […]

I was trying to find out any news on my father’s appointment to the board of CEB, alas there is nothing out there! Only thing I can find is a small contribution my father made to Digital Butterflies sometime back. History is that he joined CEB in 1962 and retired as the General Manager (equivalent […]

Revised text from courtesy of Ivan… Starting an internet business? Seasoned entrepreneur? Got the killer idea? Wondering what the 2.0 This and 2.0 That is all about? Looking for investment? Looking to invest? Come along to the north-west’s first and premier 2.0 networking event for an evening of conversation and potential dealmaking. We aim to […]

Stephen Berry, an alum of Manchester Business School made the following request today. I have just released a book ‘Strategies of the Serengeti’ which examines the successful strategies used by the giraffe, zebra, crocodile etc (13 in all) and shows how the same strategies can be applied in modern business. On www.StrategiesoftheSerengeti.com there is a […]

If you ever have a problem with Technorati, use the tag "Technorati Sucks" and you should get immediate attention as I did today. I am now ranked 152,874th out of 55 million blogs. There are 56 links from 16 blogs. Only two people uses "ebdex" as a tag, these being me and Dennis Howlett. More […]

Today, looks like a day for blogging. I have not stopped since I woke up, except to comply with my youngest daughter’s requests – and yes I had to promise my oldest daughter that daddy will help her write few blogs tonight. And its some sort of dress pink day, it seems! And I need […]

For some weird reason, Technorati has stopped ranking this blog 73 days ago. All my attempts to contact them have not resulted in any success to date. WordPress claims to automatically ping each article. I use technorati tags. I tried pinging directly from Technorati. It does not work. Technorati Tags: Technorati Sucks, Technorati

I do not want to allienate this person, but I received the most strange request from an employee of Deloitte yesterday. Here it is….perhaps someone can help her (if you e-mail me on [email protected], I will forward it to her). I am a regular reader of your blogs. Hope you can help with my urgent […]

In addition to using upcoming.org to set-up the NW Start Up 2.0 event, I have also created two communities (groups) on the same web site, titled NW Start Up 2.0 and Start Up 2.0. The intention is to allow members (free service) to use these two sites to advertise their requirements as well as offer […]

Two local well known Asian entrepreneurs are setting up a Dragon’s Den style event where they intend to find suitable start ups to invest £100,000. This event is expected to take place early next year, will no doubt be a hot topic discussed in Manchester and the North West VC/Angel Network community. It is suitably […]