Madmolf On RDA, RIA & everything else

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).

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..