Madmolf On RDA, RIA & everything else

I don't usually talk money on this blog, but for once... Can you remember how much you paid for your first real new computer ? I can. It wasn't the MacPlus, i got it second hand from my mothers' then boyfriend, roughly 150 €uros. It was the Performa 6300, we bought it, Manue and I, for 1600 €uros after waiting for 3 months for the supermarket to lower its price. It was 1996, and it had a modem in it. That's how i got on the internet for the first time, with that one. In fact, that poor little beige ugly macintosh is the reason for me being in this business right now. In this composite picture you can see 20 years of my macs, but i must admit there is a big gap (7 years) were I was stuck on Dell computers. Eventually, i needed a new computer, so i sneaked in a small MacBook. Can you imagine that 4 1/2 years old is sufficient to recognize the coolness of the Mac vs Windows. My youngest daughter prefers it, the eldest too, but she's already nine so it's not as str...

Things are shaping up, i finished writing my pre project to join a structure called The Incubateur du Pôle Excellence e-Design. It's an organisation created by The Conseil Régional du Limousin (Limousin Region Authority in France) aimed at helping and advising business creators and entrepreneurs. As said before, my goal is to provide AIR Apps in a new way to serve existing needs. I wont get to specific right now. More to come.

The winner is a Swedish team, Team Torsk they have a global view of mail and geolocation. I feel that there view is a bit intrusive and without real innovation. However the production is clean. My favorite is a brasilian team, BOPE there idea is pushing us 20 years forward, with body integration. The whole thing is a video giving us a realistic and quite humane view of what it could be. The ones i agree with most are the japanese team Team 203 , email is quite perfect as it is today, and honestly i don't think it should evolve more in it's core principles.

So, at 2pm friday afternoon, 40 teams from all around the world, all gathered in Ester Technopole's flying saucer , unleashed their grey matter full throttle to compete in the WIF 2008 Webjam. The subject this year is quite promising, it should help us understand what we have now and what could be done to mail apps : "WHAT WILL BE THE COMMUNICATION BY E-MAIL LOOK LIKE TO IN 2020 AND WILL IT STILL EXIST ? " "Imagine an interface of the future for the electronic mail, integrating a forward-looking vision of web. " Sorry for the Engrish, it's from the official site. This subject is great and quite anchored in reality, i hope the younger competitors will explode what we are used to, to give us a fresh view. Again, i maybe naive, and older cyberpunks may save the day. more to come..

After roaming the floors of ESTER Technopole were the WIF 2008 is happening right now (and until saturday), i met quite a lot of response to my question : Would you buy Adobe AIR apps ? This is looking good for my business creation. Over the next couple of months i will let you know about my adventures, in a sense you'll witness efforts, victories and or failures in the creation of a global business set in the rural heart of France. Hopefully, let's envision a happy end, tough logically this end will be a start... [ end nonsense humor here ! ] More to come...

After Paris on april 2nd, the gospel of Adobe Air is spoken in Limoges for the WIF , Michael Chaize an Adobe evangelist was there to introduce this technology to end clients. It wasn't so much about how it's made but rather what can be made of it. This approach is important if we want to be able to sell Air Apps. So let there be Air. Stay tuned for the next breadth.

I will be at the WIF 2008 in Limoges, France april 17th & 18th. The Webdesign International Festival is an interesting meeting point in the center of France were you can put a face on the thinkers of tomorrow's web. See you there. Check the speed meeting pages