Apart from giving us a new name, the article in Insider was a good one on how new Cloud Computing technologies can help SMEs use powerful software at a fraction of what it used to cost.  We also talked about Malinko our Software as a Service product that helps organisations easily manage and schedule their people and vehicles. If you’d like to talk further, as always, we’re at Manchester Science Park… just ask for Liquid Bronze!

Lovely pizza was consumed, ONITZHEAD, Homecut and Rev Juggla performed and Freedoma’s founder, Caleb Storkey, introduced the site to the event attendees.

Freedoma has been gaining good feedback and press already over its unique style and delivery of its business listings and ability to allow you to interact via adding reviews and rate businesses, and find out what your friends thought of businesses.  You can read an interview with Caleb at PR media.

Liquid Bronze developed Freedoma.com as a bespoke internet system for Caleb.  We utilised Ruby On Rails and MySQL and an adapted agile methodology for devliering the project, and look foward to continued delivery in the coming months on what has been a fun, ambitious and interesting project to work on so far.

Freedoma.com news article

Innovation magazine featured Liquid Bronze’s client Freedoma.com in their March issue.

“A new website, developed by Liquid Bronze, is helping Manchester businesses find out what their customers really think of their company”.

“Freedoma is taking the idea of a business directory to the next level, not only can users get all the business contact information they need but they can also see what other poeple think of the company and which firms are recommended”.

See what the buzz is all about at Freedoma.com

“FlyTheCoop exists to have a sustainable and creative active community of individuals, entrepreneurs and small businesses in the city centre, working together and sharing space for the purposes of collaboration, innovation and profit for the benefit of themselves, their communities and their industries.

This co-working co-operative will represent a range of creative and technical industries in the City, creating new possibilities for collaboration and partnerships.”

It looks likesetting up the first working space is progressing in Manchester.

Freedoma.com is a business listings site that allows consumers to rate, and review businesses, as well as allowing business owners to interact with their customers via the site.

Over the coming month the site will concentrating in Manchester, before moving onto the rest of the UK.

The site has been developed by Ian and Andrew of Liquid Bronze in Ruby On Rails for local entrepreneur Caleb Storkey.

This has been a significant piece of work, … features we are proud of:

distinctive features: Offsite Doc Management, The Cloud/Amazon S3, Customer Management, External Secure Access.

Development was in Ruby On Rails.

“Data breeches are becoming more common as organisations succumb to threats from hackers and even staff.  Insider and NCC Group put together a panel of experts to discuss how seriously companies are taking IT security.”

The full article can be seen in the August 2008 Edition of North West Business Insider.

Our new address is:

Unit 20, Greenheys,

Manchester Science Park,

Pencroft Way,

Manchester M15 6JJ.

The telephone number remains the 0161 850 0111.

Directions are available from the science park webpage.

If you’re wondering what a BarCamp is… “BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.”

Andrew kicked off the day by delivering a session on Liquid Bronze delivering an auction system in 60 days and the issues and challenges associated with such a tight deadline.