Madmolf On RDA, RIA & everything else

What is it about ? Here are a series of videos aimed at giving you the best advice on how to penetrate tjhe japanese market when you are a European innovative company. The first video in the series below : Mission Tokyo part 1 from WinAtlantic on Vimeo .

I don't know about you, but i feel like almost every year we have some sort of Doomsday. Last year was the rapture, but we missed it. This year is Mayan End of the world, let's hope it's more successful. And, please no earthquake in Japan, i'm going back in May. In the meantime a big support to the Japanese people rebuilding after March 2011's one. This series on JIB is about all the efforts and moving forward, and it's called "FORWARD" how convenient.

_ I got one ! I got one ! _ What ? _ A Google Wave account ! _ Well yes, what about it ? _ It's the new thingamajig by google, it's gonna connect us all real time and we'll merge and mashup our lives with our tweets and, and, and... _ Shut up ! calm down and tell me more. _ Ok, well up to now the web has evolved, from static pages to dynamic pages. IM turned us into frantic chatterboxes. Then the web started being user contributed, we posted blog posts, comments. Then Facebook and Twitter came along, mixing our physical meaty social life with our web life. GMail became a kind of hub to our chat and mail use. Skype merged IM with chat and video conferencing. Our networked life became rich but complicated. Google Wave, tries to tie all of this in some sort of realtime web app making it easier to use the virtual team metaphor. You will be able to chat exchange document and data inside your wave, that wave being constituted by all your wave contacts. As usual with all new stuff...

하나는 내 비밀의 정원의 불량 식품 포장입니다. One of my secret gardens is junk food packaging. I don't like junk food as such but i like what the package conveys, and the harsh reality it hides. Let's face it junk food must fill one of the primary human instinct, eat whatever pleases you. There are no nutritional values here, but there are however some values. I think they speak about the country were they are sold. It relates on what will create your buying impulse in that culture, and they are just fun. I'd like to thank Jean-Luc & Ny-young, a friend couple of ours who brought back the fun stuff from Korea this summer. 사랑하는 친구가 당신을 감사합니다 !

We will be at the ParisOnline Salon, the 17th and 18th of june 2009.

I just set up an Alltop account so to share the news i read as the day goes by. Mostly about SaaS and Cloud computing. It is so simple and effective, it makes you cry (well not really, but it definitely is a good tool). Just select the news subjects you are into and their XML aggregator will present it nicely in a fresh interface. I suspect Guy Kawasaki of being behind all this, but sshh i didn't say no nothing. Go and set up an account for yourself. Find all the news in our field of activity

Yesterday, we got selected for admission to the Enterprise Incubator in the technology cluster of Limoges, Ester Technopole. This means we are getting some help and a place to startup. Our project is taking off, and not that slowly mind you. We started full time on the project with Fred in October (the 23rd) it's been 5 months so far and perspectives are great. Fred is building up to be a great technical director with a team of himself (and some mysterious ninjas lurking in the back). I'm learning the mysteries of funding and leverage, whatever that means. We are being audited by Ernst & Young this afternoon, so it's up to us to fit in their analysis matrix. The products have been defined and refined, the pricing is established, the cloud infrastructure is being set up, what could go wrong ? The world is crumbling... good, it'll make a change. I believe very much in the power of crisis to make humans more humane. Unfortunately there will be suffering but then in the...

What if you searched by speaking to your Google instead of typing ? Well you can ! It's for download for your iPhone, just click here to get it in iTunes. After trying it, it works quite well if your are North-American (or pretend to be), it doesn't yet recognize other languages. I think that this could work for most people on computers, either for accessibility or laziness. Think & type, or shout & sort.

Judging by the two previous posts, you could only assume i'm some sort of soft slightly lefty techy. Worry not, the strong biter, right wing blogger in me will surface again soon. For the time being just be happy and donate to Wikipedia.

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Poster by Shepard Fairey Congratulations to the new US President Elect Barack Obama. No politics here, just being happy that the new prez is the most tech savy of them all. His campaign has been fought will all the tools provided by our time. Good luck Mr Prez.

I know, i know, Joost is not new, but it's news. They are back, with a revenge... Joost started it's second life, as a website. If you go down the blog list in january 2007 i was soooooo excited to write about Joost a new concept, out of the browser and on to the desktop : Web app !!! Then in april the same year (remember that was like a year and a half ago), i got my beta account and i was even allowed to flogg invites, i even got my only comments (and maybe visitors) at that time. Then after using it for a while, 2 days, i lost interest in it. What was wrong then : The idea ? Na ! The shows ? maybe The software ? yeah It was just to bloody buggy and it ended up not even working anymore. But these days comes the resurrection, as a website. Why should i care anyway ? Because i am starting a business based on web apps and this should be a strong study case. We'll come back to this another time, for now just go and show your support to the good people at Joost , welcome ba...

After 5 weeks already and with a week and a half only to go, the training course will end soon. What has it done for me so far ? Well, awareness would be the biggest asset i can figure out. An insight on law, accounting ang taxes, what else do you need anyway ? A lot more in fact, but it isn't the goal of that specific training. Are we starting this company ? Yes we are When ? As soon as we have a idea of how much money we can bring in So, when is that ? december-january We are to offer state of the art services based on Rich Networked Applications ( read this article by Michael Krotscheck on classifying Rich Internet Applications ). Our offer will be quite a relief for many SoHo's and professional who need to keep track of their exchanges while working on projects. Who knows,we may even convince bigger companies to use our stuff. More on this in later posts.

We survived despair & depression, after being hurt by reality. A company is a fat cash cow for any democratic state or country, or is it ? Well no; true we got to pay for taxes all the time, but then why care ? A company is a way to shape your dreams and make them come to reality, with an accountant in the picture. So far, i've learned a lot about financial mechanism, social status for the boss, how to avoid some taxes. Next we will enter the money rounds, how to found a company and find shareholders (with money). Among the budding projects here is a listing : C. is starting up a second hand branded clothes store. M. & A. are brother and sister, they have the goal to set up a vehicule recycling plant with shipping to Africa. P. is eager to have your dog behave, she is a dog comportementalist. A. will feed the world with her restaurant. A. has a plan for you to escape from your kids. A. will start an arts print shop on the web. M. is on the line to open up a mobile pho...

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It's finally there, with a bit of excitement around 8pm french time (around 11am PTC) constantly hitting F5, so what's the deal ? Well, it's fresh, simple, and quite quick (talking about browser speed can be a joke, it varies in 0.00006 to 0.005 sec. so how can we humans judge this, whatever). Google Chrome is a good navigator for Joe Average. And for Sam Geek, well it's lacking the capacity to overload it with 42 tons of add-ons, which is good. Detachable google apps to use them as self existing applications... Now we are approaching our RDA territory. Well it gives me hope for the future. We are not bound to the browser anymore. _ V8 is there to make it tick. _ V8? What is that, an engine ? _ Abso- bloody- lutely, it's the Javascript interpreter that convert all the JS to     Machine code so it runs faster and more reliably. _ Yeah, hey is that an iPhone ? _ ... !? Download it to try, no frisk no frills. Agreable web navigation, let see what comes by in the ...

Google is to announce today at a conference held at Mountain View, Calif., the launch of it's well awaited Google Chrome Web Browser !!!! What should be new ? Well it is supposed to speed up rendering time, fixing forever memory leaks, enhancing javascript execution, making coffe and saving the world. It is based on Webkit so it should be "rock solid" as Google says. V8 is new also, it is the new javascript rendition engine. They built it from scratch to optimize JS code. Objects that use the same properties will share theme instead of each loading the same stuff, dynamic code generation ! In fact it turns your javascript into Machine Code that will run directly on the CPU, so it's not interpreted anymore, instead it runs directly. Best of all, V8 is used by the browser, but it's core is separated from it, so other browsers and Web Apps (Think NoBrandApps) can use it ! A new feature is the "Incognito" tab, what happens in that tab stays in that tab. No ...

The summer went by without being noticed, but who cares. On the way to starting up a company, i barely noticed the lack of sun. September 8th is getting close, on that day i will start a 7 weeks business creation training period at the Chamber of Commerce in Limoges. Fred is soon to join the project (early september), as he is leaving his job, he will be in charge of the technical aspects and developers management. An other team member is expected, she is still working, but may soon join us to head operations (yes a CEO). We are still on breaking grounds, but our concept is still the only one of it's kind. Not many information in this post, but just a few updates.

One thing that i learn everyday is humility. You may have the best project in the world, it's still a project. At best people are sympathetic, it's not their money you're after. But there are cases where you need to do and redo a thing until it's right. That's what happened with my PR presentation. I imagine and build my project every second so it's deep inside me, so deep in fact that i have to struggle to explain it lightly to a non-specialist audience. So here i am trying to take away the tech in me, and let the advertiser out. But then Vanessa the PR girl rebukes it, so it's back to the keyboard again. This project, i may even talk to you about it one day, if i'm able to translate it in normal linguo.

Hi there, yesterday i joined the ranks of aspiring web entrepreneurs wishing to spread their vision across the web. I am in a business program called "Pré-Incubateur du Pôle E-Design " in the Ester Technopark of Limoges . This program aims to help build your company by providing for shelter and advice. You get an office space in a buzzing technological environment and you get advice from Business Angels, accountants, lawyers... plus you learn how to gain funding. In my future posts i may be a bit money centered, but then an ambitious project such as NoBrandApp.com is not going to rise from thin air (even though there'll be a lot of AIR in it).