“Run on limited resources and you’ll be forced to reckon with constraints…And that’s a good thing. Constraints drive innovation.”
—from Getting Real, by 37Signals

What’s an entrepreneur? It’s someone who, given limited resources and terrible odds, can create something truly great; when life gives you lemons, build a multi-million dollar company.

Productivity app maker 37Signals has become as famous for its philosophy as its products: “Less is More”, went the mantra. From Getting Real, the company’s 2006 manual for the web-dev set: “The answer is less. Do less than your competitors to beat them…Instead of oneupping, try one-downing. Instead of outdoing, try underdoing.” Constraints, goes the thesis, unleash creativity: less money, less people, less time…all these things force creative solutions to problems.

And suddenly startups have less money. Everyone does.

More About Less

The concept isn’t new. You could quote Frank Lloyd Wright: “‘Man built most nobly when limitations were at their greatest.” Or G. K. Chesterton: “There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” Or Thomas Huxley: “A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.” (There are dozens of these. Read more here.)

Alas, when times are good, sticking to your own advice is hard. 37Signals ignored their own guidance by taking funding in 2006.

Times are no longer good; choice is limited; creativity is key.

Beyond Cloud Castles: What To Do

I’m looking forward, with anticipation, to a new wave of necessity-driven innovation. More specifically, to a laser-sharp focus on business models. Let’s hope to see:

• Radically inventive new business models
• Reinvention: old business models returning in unexpected places
• The next great revenue generator beyond Google’s Adsense / AdWords
• Utility over users: a focus on usefulness over scale

This is not an attempt at contrarian positivity in a crisis. Not at all. More simply: the money tree has stopped bearing fruit. Conditions are perfect, then, for entrepreneurship to flourish.

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Bessemer Venture Partners a lancé une startup du nom de MashLogic en beta privé hier. Le but ambitieux de cette startup: aider les utilisateurs à se réapproprier le web”.

Ils affirment (et ils ne sont pas les seuls) que le web est aujourd’hui mené par ce qu’on pourrait appeler l’économie des pages lues et par les “manipulations” SEO. Le résultat est une expérience web nettement moins optimale.

Le système fonctionne via des scripts de  Greasemonkey qui retire les liens ‘inutiles” et un service comme celui de Adaptive Blue rajoute des options de navigation et de liens via une extension. Sphere, acquis par AOL cette année, propose aussi aux utilisateurs du contenu en rapport qui pourrait les intéresser en fonction de la page où ils se trouvent.

Mashlogic propose une approche plus directe. il s’agit d’une extension pour Firefox a installer mais sans barre d’outils. il suffit de changer les paramétrés afin de déterminer quelles informations vous aimeriez intégrer sur vos pages web. Le plus facile , par exemple : des liens vers Wikipedia mais aussi des liens de société vers LinkedIn, un convertisseur de monnaies, etc…. Une sorte de couteau Suisse  des Hyperliens.

Une option intéressante est celle qui permet de supprimer tous les liens sur une page et de garder seuls ceux de MashLogic. Vous pouvez aussi créer une “blacklist” de domaines que vous ne souhaitez pas voir apparaître sur la page.

Une fois vos paramétrés configurés, des liens commenceront à apparaître sur la page. Les sportifs ont des stats, les politiciens, des sondages, etc..Ou bien encore des cartes géographiques,etc..

L’idée est de vous éviter de retourner sur un moteur de recherche à chaque fois que vous avez besoin d’une info en rapport avec ce que vous lisez. Nos premiers tests nous ont donné des résultats très pertinents (comme ce lien sur le mot “Bessemer Ventures” qui lie vers CrunchBase; ex ci-dessous)

Si vous passez avec la souris sur un lien vers un clip, vous pouvez le visionner en pop-up.

Le modèle économique:

La façon la plus facile de gagner de l’argent sera de placer des liens vers des produits ecommerce, exploiter un système d’affiliés. Mais le service compte aussi être une base de données pour les différentes activités de liens et il existe plusieurs façons de monétiser cette idée.

MashLogic encourage aussi la distribution. L’idée est en effet que si le concept fonctionne, pourquoi ne pas directement proposer aux éditeurs de contenu de le fournir aux utilisateurs avec les données de votre site pré stockées à l’avance. Les utilisateurs fidèles lecteurs de votre site pourront ainsi accéder à votre contenu  où qu’ils se trouvent sur le web. Si le concept attire suffisamment de monde il pourra être également vendu sous licence directement sur  les navigateurs web.

 

 

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Last week, after ignoring the world’s financial problems for almost a year, Silicon Valley woke up to find itself caught in the death grip of the credit crunch. Declining stock markets only added to the overall gloom. And when one of its own — Sequoia Capital, among the smartest and most rational investors in the world — told its portfolio companies to cinch their belts tighter than ever, all hell broke loose.

Those of us in the Valley are now reassessing our bullishness and trying to quickly figure out which sectors are going to get hit the hardest. The consensus that is fast emerging? Advertising.

And yes, that does include online advertising — even if it is likely to recover first. Regardless of the timeline involved, the destruction that will follow is going to be on a massive scale, as it will take down any number of poorly funded startups whose fortunes depend on those ad dollars.

In a sobering and harsh analysis sent to his clients, UBS analyst Ben Schachter said online advertising network ValueClick would be among those negatively affected. Using that as a proxy for the “advertising network” business, it’s safe to assume that dozens of advertising networks that have cropped up over the past two years will be impacted.

The economic problems are much wider and deeper than most people realize. The sub-prime mortgage industry not only lit a fire under the housing market but under consumer spending as well. All that spending led to big-time advertising on the part of consumer companies, and as those revenues worked their way across the entire technology food chain, healthy ad spending spread to even decidedly non-consumer areas.

The boom was particularly evident on the web, where it helped to spawn a whole slew of ad-supported ventures such as social networks, video sites and other web services. Now, however, we are moving in the opposite direction. Consumer spending is starting to fall, and the long-term prognosis isn’t pretty.

As Schachter wrote, “[W]e see no business model based on advertising or consumer spending that will be immune to a downturn. Specifically for the advertising names, as corporate profit forecasts come down, we expect planned advertising spending will be delayed and/or cut.”

And the problem isn’t limited to smaller players. Yahoo, for example, which is heavily dependent on display advertising from the financial and automobile sectors, is very vulnerable and might soon face a day of reckoning. Viacom slashed its full-year earnings forecast Friday afternoon, citing the softening ad market. The only ad-related company that looks like somewhat of a safe place amidst this chaos is Google, thanks largely to its performance-based advertising system, which allows advertisers to only pay for what brings them returns.

For the rest of us, the era of sleepless nights has begun.

Eyealike, the startup that lets you use photo recognition to help find your ideal mate, is expanding to apply its image processing technology to a new market: advertising. The company says that the new system will allow businesses to place highly targeted advertising alongside photographs that appear on their site (which have long been difficult to monetize).

For now the image recognition is restricted to identifying physical traits of the people in photographs, with categories including age, gender, hair color, and skin color. In the demo I saw, the results were impressive: photographs with babies in them were paired with products for infants and toddlers, and makeup ads were shown near photos with women in them.

The company is also in early stages of identifying company logos in photographs (which could be paired with matching products), and eventually hopes to include support for more objects, like vehicle recognition and applications for travel.

Eyealike isn’t meant as a consumer product. Instead, it’s being licensed at an enterprise level, with a customizable backend that Eyealike will tailor for each customer’s needs. Provided the system works well, Eyealike shouldn’t have any trouble finding customers - sites like MySpace with billions of photos would love to more effectively monetize them.

The problem that Eyealike is solving isn’t a new one - it’s just very hard to accurately identify the subjects in a photograph. Eyealike claims that its algorithms work 90% of the time - an impressive figure that would undoubtedly lead to higher advertising revenues. Unfortunately, because the technology doesn’t have a consumer front-end, I was unable to try it out for myself. Eyealike says that it is in talks to implement its system with a large social network, so we may get to try it for ourselves soon enough.

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pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/price_drop.jpg" /A a href="http://www.forrester.com/go?docid=47217"new report/a by Forrester Research states that the market for collaboration and productivity web apps in the enterprise (a.k.a. enterprise 2.0) is set for a shake-up, with prices to fall in some cases by over half. Price drops will be especially sharp in blog, wikis, social networking and widgets. The only exception is mashups, which will increase in price over the next 5 years./p pForrester says the price drops will be due to quot;cutthroat competition, commoditization, bundling, and subsumptionquot;, with many startups and established big companies competing for the enterprise dollar./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12144amp;cb=12144' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12144amp;n=12144' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pThere is still expected to be strong adoption by enterprises of web 2.0 apps, which will result in increased license revenue. However that will be offset by the large price drops./p h2Which Apps Will Suffer The Most?/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/rww_enterprise.jpg" align="right" /The outlook is particularly bleak for strongblogging software/strong, which Forrester says will quot;fall to the lowest average cost per enterprise among Web 2.0 toolsquot; - that's bad news for Six Apart and Automattic, both of whom have been aggressively targeting the enterprise in recent years./p pstrongWikis/strong are also expected to fall in price, however Forrester notes that wikis have had a strong impact on enterprises so far. So there will be more competition, but best-of-breed solutions will continue to do well. Forrester says that quot;well-designed, intuitive, and cheap wiki technologyquot; will do best. /p pWe've noted over the years that it's very tough to create an easy-to-use and intuitive wiki app, therefore we expect existing best of breed providers such as Atlassian and SocialText to continue to do well. em[disclosure: SocialText is a RWW sponsor]/em/p pstrongWidgets/strong are expected to drop in price a bit over the next 5 years, mostly because they will become far more common place than they are now. Forrester notes that traditional enterprise applications providers like SAP and Oracle will begin to offer widget solutions for their existing customers./p pstrongSocial networking/strong is expected to see a big drop, largely due to SharePoint. Forrester states that quot;much like blogs and wikis, social networking is likely to be commoditized quickly over the next five years.quot; They do hold out some hope thought for quot;specialized tools that focus on alumni networks, new employee orientation, and cross-department collaborationquot;, which they think may continue to get price premiums. /p pThe one thing we'd caution here is that SharePoint so far has proven to be a complex and difficult to use beast, so we're not so sure that easy-to-use alternatives will be commoditized by SharePoint. In theory it sounds sensible, but in practice how many people actually use SharePoint to network?/p pForrester sees strongmashups/strong as being very early in their market sycle, so it is optimistic pricing will increase. It states that quot;IT departments will prioritize mashup technology as part of portal, business intelligence, and business process management software investments as well as a major component of SOA implementations.quot;/p pAlso in the report, strongpodcasts/strong are predicted to remain largely unchanged over the next five years and enterprise strongRSS/strong will play quot;a critical role as the Web 2.0 middleware, staving off major price declines.quot;/p pThe graph below from Forrester summarizes all of the data:/p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/forrester_enterprise20_pricing_trends.jpg" //p h2Why Will Prices Drop?/h2 pOne of the reasons is that old fear of web 2.0 companies: strongcommoditization/strong. As innovation gets copied and 'digested', so it becomes less of a differentiator for the innovators. As Forrester puts it in the report, quot;for the most part, a blog from one vendor is no better than a blog from another, eroding differentiation and price premiums.quot;/p pstrongBundling/strong is another threat to startups, creating quot;a homogenous set of competitors.quot; Forrester seems to be suggesting that most enterprise 2.0 vendors are attempting to sell a Web Office suite: quot;Everyone, from blogging vendors like Six Apart to social bookmarking vendors like Connectbeam, is converging on one offering: the enterprise Web 2.0 suite.quot; This, says Forrester, will result in an quot;industrywide brawl, with buyers the only guaranteed winnerquot;./p pThe third main factor is strongsubsumption/strong, which Forrester says quot;brings Web 2.0 technology to millions of users at little to no cost.quot; Subsumption in this case has a similar meaning to integration. It's a tactic that the big vendors - like Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle - have more easily at their disposal over startups. Forrester points out that these bigcos can easily roll Web 2.0 features into their existing software packages - in many cases at no extra cost to the user. Microsoft has been doing this with SharePoint, which has lightweight blogging and wiki tools bundled into the main product./p pWhat's more, Microsoft has managed to partner with a number of high profile but small enterprise 2.0 vendors - such as Atlassian and Newsgator. In June a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sharepoint_to_run_enterprise_2.php"we profiled 9 small companies/a that had launched Enterprise 2.0 offerings that integrate with SharePoint technology. So this could be viewed as another form of 'subsumption', whereby startups have to partner with big companies like Microsoft in order to compete in this highly competitive market./p pEven an apparently independent startup like Zoho, which seems to be a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_the_little_engine_that_could.php"competing well with bigger companies/a, has to a degree partnered with bigcos - a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zoho_mail_gets_offline_support.php"their use of Google Gears/a has them relying on a technology produced by Google (ok, Gears is open source, but still it is a form of reliance)./p h2Conclusion/h2 pOverall, the trend according to Forrester is that prices for enterprise 2.0 apps will fall but that demand will continue to ramp up. We at ReadWriteWeb can't argue with the overall trend, however we think that startups still have a few tricks up their sleeves when competing against bulky and often hard to use products like SharePoint. However we've always said that partnerships - with bigcos and other startups alike - will be key to startups as they engage their bigger competitors in a crowded market./p pTell us what you think of these trends in the comments./p pemImage: a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pansonaut/296600022/"pansonaut/a/em/p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/enterprise_20_apps_fall_price.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/g2WMk7pDOTpvbZX2ufiHHXuoDzg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/g2WMk7pDOTpvbZX2ufiHHXuoDzg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=yQsOq3yO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=yQsOq3yO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=3uMiAmPR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=ZU0AfQmx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=ZU0AfQmx" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=KrtOCKcE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=KrtOCKcE" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=FDok82r0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=FDok82r0" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/7jvkm9tM7Ns" height="1" width="1"/

forever the cirlce thingy moves though. this is on my second partition it worked fine until i done a experiment .

In case anyone else has this issue I found the below which has been tried and tested: -

PREP
Have TWO blank partitions ready. One will be for the installer and the other will be where you install Leopard. [Double this if you intend to also load up Server.]

LET’S GO

* With your disc image mounted, open the Disk Utility application (Applications -> Utilities).
* Click the Restore tab (see it near the top of the Disk Utility window? Just after First Aid, Erase and RAID…)
* Drag your DMG file from the list on the left of your Disk Utility window to the ”Source” field.
* Then, drag the icon of the partition you want to put the installer on to the ”Destination” field. Again, do this from the left pane of your Disk Utility window. If you try to do this from the desktop (as I kept trying to do) you’re going to drive yourself bonkers.
* Click the ”Erase Destination” check box so that it shows a check.
* I also skipped the Checksum. You might or might not want to do the same. Your call.
* Click Restore.
* Wait until done.

Once the above is complete you now have a bootable OSX Leopard Install partition.

All you have to do now is go to System Preferences -> Startup Disk and specify your boot partition to be ”Mac OS X Install DVD”.

Restart and prepare to install to your other blank partition (or, really, wherever you choose). [It warrants disclosing… some people have said (comments below) their mileage is poor with USB drives… I can’t say with any authority that USB drives don’t work as startup volumes for Leopard… it would seem at the least they don’t do the job well.]

BTW, this should work on ANY Mac OS install DMG. There’s no special voodoo magic just because it’s Leopard.

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pimg src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/185472365_7ae7f2303b_m.jpg" /Credit crisis. Blah, blah. Cut costs. Blah, blah. Don't you just love it when you get an alarm call from your hotel at 9.15 when your meeting is at 9.00? At ReadWriteWeb we have been sounding alarms about the economy for a year (a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/storms_in_the_web_20_petri_dish.php"here/a, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/post_recession_phase_transition.php"here/a, a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_is_not_our_bubble.php"here/a and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_gritty_entrepreneur.php"here/a...enough already), suggesting strategies to cope with the coming downturn. /p pBut what about now? This is the time to be audacious. The world has changed, totally and irrevocably. Change is the entrepreneur's friend./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12138amp;cb=12138' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12138amp;n=12138' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p h2Forget About Tsunamis, It's The Little Waves That Matter/h2 pI call these Micro Trends. They are not the big obvious trends that everybody is riding - such as mobile, online advertising, search, social networking, globalization etc. If you spotted those 10 years ago, great. Now it is too late. Think surfing. If you see the wave building early on, you get a chance to ride it. If you catch it too late, you get crushed./p h2How Does The Last Few Weeks Change This List?/h2 pFor some time I have had a list of Micro Trends on my personal blog. It seems a good time to revisit them to see what might change based on the global credit crisis./p pu1. Transparency/u. This wave has been building for a while, but it just got a big boost by recent events. Transparency in financial markets obviously. Then there is Obama's a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/26/obama-only-dem-candidate-_n_61851.html"Google for Government/a initiative. Some of the smartest recent startups we have seen use a mix of technology, insight and hard work to expose the inner working of industries to eliminate information asymmetry and get lower prices for buyers. You can bet that there will be more./p p u2. Relocalization/u. We have already written about this a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/relocalization_opportunities_l.php"here/a. Tough times will accentuate this trend. The solutions are not obvious (so a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/real_vc_safest_asset_class.php"Momentum VC/a won't touch them), they could be game changing./p pu3. Reduced power of gatekeepers/u. This relates to Transparency. Reduced information asymmetry reduces the power of gatekepeepers/intermediaries/tollbooths. The Financial Services industry is the mother of all gatekeepers. The Economist states that in the early 1980s, the financial services industry accounted for 10% of GDP, but last year it rose to 40%. One change arising from the recent turmoil we can be totally confident about is that the current financial services intermediaries are weakened and new models will arise. Who will do a craigslist on the financial services industry (or at least segments of that vast industry)?/p pu4. Micro-trend Slopes replace Chasms/u. Alex Iskold started an interesting conversation about whether the Internet has made the a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rethinking_crossing_the_chasm.php"Chasm adoption model/a less relevant. Biking up and down slopes may be the better analogy today. Catch a new trend and you can cruise down a slope, picking up speed effortlessly. As trend-spotting me-too ventures join the race (the Internet spreads ideas instantaneously) the slope flattens out and curves uphill. In good times, a bit of pushing gets you over the top and catching another micro trend slope on the way down. If your up slope coincides with a cyclical down turn (and we are certainly in a big cyclical downturn today), you will get a flat tire and have to carry your bike up the hill and mend it at the top. Don't worry, the other racers will have given up at that point. Starting in a cyclical downturn, make sure you are on a down slope!br / br / u5. Changing balance of power between big and small businesses./u Yes we have been "banging on" about this for a long time. For the most long-winded description (sorry), a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_emerging_main_street_web.php"read this./a This could be the biggest micro trend, even a Tsunami that few people have spotted. Which the current crisis just accentuated. Which the incoming President might actually do something positive about for a change./p pu6. Self-organizing networks beat command and control structures./u This is the story of a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/enterprise_20_nature_of_the_firm.php"Enterprise 2.0/a - aka, social media meets the enterprise./p pu7. The end of mass markets/u. This relates to most of the other trends. Small, niche, specialist will beat mass produced. This is why a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/etsy_ebay_distributed_mass_customization.php"Etsy may be a big winner/a from this Web 2.0 cycle. There are probably other opportunities around this trend./p pu8. Ad $$$ will flow to measurable ROI models/u. OK, that falls into the no-duh category! But surely Google Adwords is not the only winner in this category? There must be a better ad targeting model out there somewhere? Not better search, you can just use Yahoo Boss for search - that game was totally over well before the credit crisis. But better ad targeting that does not infringe privacy is a big winner./p pu9. Bubbles will form and pop faster./u Bubbles are like booze. With a horrible hangover we say "never again". But guess what.... They don't reappear in the same place until a generation that was bruised has moved on. So the big bubble may be a thing of the past. But we will get lots of small ones. That is kind of like moderate drinking, actually quite good for us. My motto is "moderation in all things, including moderation". /p pu10. The end of 11 point lists/u. I used to do 10 point lists until a commenter showed me this wonderful a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d54UU-fPIsY"Spinal Tap video/a. Seriously, 10 point lists indicated limits and space on the Internet is unlimited. But then I noticed many people doing em11 point/em lists. 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Dare Obasanjo, a Microsoft employee and the son of a former President of Nigeria, doesn’t like it when people disagree with him. I found that out in 2007 when Obasanjo vandalized the TechCrunch Wikipedia page in response to a post we wrote that was mildly critical of Microsoft’s hiring of a blogger to edit certain Wikipedia entries relating to Open Office standards. His actions as an individual and as a representative of Microsoft were outrageous.

Today he writes a post accusing us of “encouraging…garbage” on TechCrunch because we’ve reported on the market fall over the last week, pointing to three examples (out of over 100 posts last week) where we the fall of Yahoo and Google stock, and the Seesmic layoffs.

“The last thing we need is popular blogs AND the mass media spreading despair and schadenfreude at a time like this,” he says.

Our job isn’t to cheerlead the startup scene no matter what happens. Our job is to report the news as it happens and add our opinion as we feel is appropriate. So even if we were reporting nothing but doom and gloom, the criticism isn’t appropriate.

But in face we’ve been fairly cheerful over the last week, reporting on a couple of dozen new startups and products, focusing as much as possible on the positive, and trying to defocus the mobs from blaming the venture capitalists for what’s happening in the markets.

In other words, the tone of our coverage hasn’t changed.

So what happened? You guessed it. We dared to disagree with something the Obasanjo had to say over on TechCrunchIT, which he immediately characterized as a personal attack. A few days later- zap! - he finds three posts that aren’t all roses and butterflies and makes a subtle accusation that suggests TechCrunch may be partly to blame for the hysteria in the market right now.

This isn’t ok from anyone, and it really isn’t ok from a high profile Microsoft blogger. This is the second time Microsoft, through Obasanjo, has attacked us when we disagreed with them. No other large companies as far as I know use their employees as attack dogs to silent dissent. It’s time for Microsoft to stop this nonsense.

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