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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.
Tags: NW StartUp 2.0, OpenCoffee, OpenCoffee Manchester, logo
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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:
Wouldn’t that be wonderful! Is that too much to ask! I do not think so.
I saw Rhys demonstrating his Web2oS at OpenCoffee Manchester. I saw the interest both Paul Robinson and Ed French had! What could be the outcome?
Paul spoke about co-working. Philip Hemsted and I showed interest on his Wiki. I have met Paul before, but it was the first time Philip met him. Everyone was interested in the idea. What an opportunity to test ideas? Do you have an idea that you like to get free unbiased review on? OpenCoffee Manchester is the place to be.
There is another similar conversation taking place between two people who met for the first time at one of these events - no investors approached yet, but these individuals are talking seriously with few other people. Sorry can’t reveal for the time being.
Wow! Do you know any other positive outcomes! Am I asking a lot? You bet I am!
Tags: Rhys Jones, Paul Robinson, Ed French, OpenCoffee, OpenCoffee Manchester, NW StartUp 2.0, entrepreneurship, startups, funding
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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
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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:
May I request you to register at following links:
If you are a blogger, please use the following tags in your blogs (without any gap between Open and Coffee), especially for Technorati:
Tags: OpenCoffee, OpenCoffee Manchester
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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 place for Citizendium on the social-media scene, and noted that corporations are extremely frustrated with Wikipedia’s policies. "Companies have had real challenges getting their perspective on the facts addressed in Wikipedia," he explained. "You can file a complaint but there is no real protection against inaccuracies." Although Bernoff said he is sure that no one would want to read on Citizendium only what companies want told, he said there is room for more balance. Bernoff, for one, is betting consumers will appreciate having a choice. Of course, that doesn’t mean Citizendium won’t have challenges of its own in separating fact from fiction. "If you try to develop another way to define the truth it’s also going to have flaws," he said. "There is no automatic truth algorithm in the world."
Watch out for my own Wiki! I am looking for a host at present. Does anyone has a preference for a particular platform? MediaWiki looks better than pbWiki.
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Tags: Wikipedia, Citizendium, Forrester, MediWiki, pbwiki
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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 how you can work more effectively with Oracle in the UK, maximise your sales and marketing opportunities, ensure your business is based on the latest technology, register for events and workshops, get all the latest news relating to the ISV programme in the UK, as well as being able to provide us with your comments and suggestions.
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7 people turned up for the first ever OpenCoffee Manchester. Let’s have a quick look at these individuals:
Except Paul and David, others have supported me before by attending NW StartUp 2.0 events. David was really the new face as I meet Paul monthly at North West Digital Communities chaired by Manchester Digital Development Agency. Many interesting areas were discussed, among these:
Special thanks goes to Rhys for attending all the 3 events (2 x NW StartUp 2.0 + 1 OpenCoffee Manchester) I held so far. Anybody who might complained about the early start - here is real commitment - Rhys travelled from Bangor! Can you beat that! Philip travelled from Birmingham and Ed also travelled lot more miles to be there, before anyone else turned up.
Please take few minutes to visit Paul’s coverage of the event, which is far more exciting than what I have written here.
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Tags: OpenCoffee, OpenCoffee Manchester, NW StartUp 2.0, Rhys Jones, Ed French, Philip Hemsted, Web2oS, Sanoodi, Accountis, Yuuguu, Vagueware, Into Vision
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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 facility to scan and index paper documents as well as print using outsource partners (a hybrid model)
Pasrel API allows users to configure various steps and sequences in the document exchange process (work flow).
Customers include GMAC Commercial Finance, the users of the on-line discounting module. Deskom has a special relationship with SAP France, in which, SAP France has chosen Deskom as their preferred e-invoicing solution provider for France. In 2003, Deskom announced the opening of a UK office. However, I cannot find current UK address on their web site. So it seems they only have a office in France. It would be interesting to find out their growth strategy, given single operation centre. Their web site certainly could do with a new face lift!
Tags: Eskom, e-invoicing, EIPP, GMAC, GMAC Commercial Finance, supply chain finance, invoice discounting, Pasrel
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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 Cup 2007
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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 come after you. You can find more information and thoughts on my blog techgain.net
Now I did not know Ed had started a blog. Its refreshing to see a local VC finally taking a positive step to reach out. Unfortunately, two attempts to leave a congratulatory comment failed.
Ed also spoke at the recent NW StartUp 2.0 event. He entertained the audience with following slides (actually the 4th slide!):
Tags: Ed French, Rising Stars, Enterprise Ventures, Techgain.net
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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 contributors to assist in the ongoing documentation and knowledge building that is essential to creating useful information for supply management professionals.
Contributors include:
Wiki Series includes:
Definitely worth reading. Is it time we start a similar for e-invoicing?
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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. SelfcastTV (www.selfcasttv.com)
14. Yuuguu (www.yuuguu.com)
15. Mobango (www.mobango.com)
16. Horsesmouth (www.horsesmouth.co.uk)
17. Cerkle (www.cerkle.com)
18. Friction.TV (www.friction.tv)
19. Last.fm (www.last.fm)
20. Trusted Places (www.trustedplaces.com)
21. DropSend (www.dropsend.com)
22. Idio (www.idiomag.com)
23. Elertz (www.elertz.com)
24. Izimi (www.izimi.com)
25. Crowdstorm (www.crowdstorm.com)
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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:
In addition, Jeremy Roche, CODA’s CEO has commented
“Neon gives clients: the most technologically and functionally advanced financial accounting system in the world today; a state-of-the-art spend management system that will bring control and efficiency to the procurement process; and a range of other transactional systems including world-class, high-volume invoice matching and asset systems. This further establishes CODA’s leadership in finance systems for mid-market and enterprise-level organizations, and makes us a serious contender in the global procurement systems market.”
I am always suspicious when companies claim to be the best. Such claims are acceptable if evidence can be provided to substantiate the claim.
It seems that with project Neon, Coda see themselves as a serious contender in "spend management" and "procure-to-pay" market. So Coda is no longer just in the accounts and finance software market! Now they are competing with Oracle, SAP as well as perhaps Ariba and others!
The key reason I was attracted to this news release is that Coda saw ebdex as a competitor, in reality we were a complementor rather than a competitor. So, I was interested to find out whether they have developed a "document exchange" hub-and-spoke solution. It does not seem to be the case. Instead they have added lot of more functionality, web services element and has improved the user interface.
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I have recently paid lot more attention to identify the biggest threat to the growth of e-invoicing and document exchange solutions worldwide. And my conclusion sadly is, it is the paper that we love dearly and hate equally.
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In January 2007, 2,847 executives worldwide responded to a survey conducted by McKinsey on business usage of web 2.0 technologies. Key conclusions were:
According to the survey results, the most popular web 2.0 trends in order of popularity are (with brief explanation of various technologies):
According to the results, most companies are investing in above technologies to maintain market position, either to provide a competitive advantage or match the competition addressing customer demand. I for one agree with this conclusion. More than anything above technologies enable further engagement with customers, trading partners and the wider stakeholders by increasing the interactivity.
Tags: McKinsey, Web 2.0, blogs, wikis, podcasting, RSS, social networking, web 2.0 trends
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