Manoj Ranaweera

Building a great tech company (edocr.com) and tech ecosystem (techcelerate.org) in the north of England

Archive for April, 2007

Aberdeen Benchmark Report -”E-Payables: Advancing A/P Automation” – Grab now for free…

If you are interested in the above report, it can be grabbed for free here until end of May 2007, thanks to Andrew Bartolini of the Aberdeen Group. Andrew has also suggested doing a Q&A session through this blog. I am yet to work out the details. Perhaps this could be around following topics (extending [...]

21 April 2007 at 16:06 - Comments

TiEger’s Den – £400,000 for grabs..

Tie UK has finally announced the long awaited TiEger’s Den that would take place on 4th June 2007 at Manchester Business School. Sandy Chadha and Sanjay Vadera are ready to invest £400,000 in to 4 North West early stage companies that have been trading for over six months. Each competitor will be given 10 minutes [...]

21 April 2007 at 15:38 - Comments
Oh Damn, I missed this :sad:
5 June 07 at 21:04

What is Identity 2.0?

Here is an excellent presentation from Dick Hardt of sxip, explaining what identity 2.0 is. . Could the speakers of mashup* on 24th April do a better job than Dick Hardt explaining identity 2.0? Reference(s):

Learn all about Identity 2.0 at next mashup on 24th April 2007

Tags: identity 2.0, sxip, Dick Hardt

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21 April 2007 at 15:08 - Comments

Hub Alliance – My first meeting

This week, I had the privilege to attend a Hub Alliance committee meeting on behalf of Causeway, which was held at the London office of Burns e-Commerce. In order to do justice to the initiative, I plan to publish separate blog posts on following themes:

Objectives of the alliance and the reasons for setting it up Founding [...]

20 April 2007 at 00:09 - Comments

Gary Turner plans to leave Pegasus

According to the latest press release by Pegasus, Gary Turner plans to leave Pegasus in June 2007.

Ken Walters, President of Infor’s financial solutions division said, "Infor is totally committed to driving Pegasus forwards. While we regret Gary’s decision to leave, we also respect it was his personal decision. I would like to thank him for [...]

19 April 2007 at 23:18 - Comments

Vecosys will be relaunched as Blognation – Now that makes sense!

I planned to meet Sam Sethi on Wednesday night to discuss the relaunch of Vecosys, but due to an issue at Sam’s end, we could not meet as planned. My understanding is that when Vecosys is relaunched, it will be as blognation and will be launched in six countries, hopefully simultaneously. It will also cover [...]

19 April 2007 at 22:26 - Comments
Meanwhile you'll find me on tbites.com from now on...
20 April 07 at 19:35

Learn all about Identity 2.0 at next mashup on 24th April 2007

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.  Who should I trust [...]

15 April 2007 at 08:56 - Comments

Manoj and Causeway Technologies

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 [...]

14 April 2007 at 22:13 - Comments

The future of ebdex

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?

ebdex [...]

14 April 2007 at 22:09 - Comments
Sorry to hear that Manoj but hopefully there will be a silver lining.
16 April 07 at 01:31
Thanks, Dennis for your kind thoughts.
16 April 07 at 06:11

Supermarket 2.0 – It’s coming to your neighbourhood – get in the queue

A shopping experience like no other (thanks Mike for the link). Enjoy!

Tags: supermarket 2.0, glumbert.com

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4 April 2007 at 06:09 - Comments
Cool video... i checked it earlier.. did u happen to see that ASDA,(moss side) has installed self checkout machines,it might not be ...
5 April 07 at 14:55
Self checkout machine has been installed in Sainsburys and Tesco perhaps for well over a year. Even my local Tesco ...
5 April 07 at 16:55