A few months ago I launched a place to share photos I’ve taken over the years in different places around the world. So far I’m having a good time every time I upload a new photo and share it.

The design of that first version of the Photoblog was very simple, I designed it and coded it in only few days (2 or maybe 3 days). But pretty much after launched I began thinking in a new version, with more features but with the same main focus… share my photos.

So last week, I began designing the completely new version and over the weekend I made the finish touches and coded it. I added new cool features and nice little details, here some of them:

- New logo and new color scheme

- Fixed sidebar that shows all the info all the time

- Re-arranged the info and detail of every photo for a better user experience

- The ability share photos to twitter is now just in one click

- You can buy the photos in Hi-Res. This feature is pretty cool, using the amazing Gumroad site (a secure site to make payments and buy things online). If you buy the photo you can use it in any place!

These are the main new features of the new version of the Photoblog. As always, that is a place where I share personal photos and opinions about things. Hope you like it!

Sal

A really good and inspirational video. Nothing more to say here, I think the video says it all.

Here’s an impressive video made by Jeff Desom about a classic film of all time Classic, Rear Window (Original Movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock)

All footage was taken from the original movie and resume it in an amazing 2.58 min video. Enjoy!

A few days ago, I went to my first TEDx conference. I was blowing away for some of the talks and gave me the chance to think about creativity and how, more than later, you move away from some ideas and dreams for being “too difficult” or “impossibles” and just only try to do the “safe” work…

Many of the talks were really amazing and in one of the breaks, I had the chance to watch one of the most viewed TED talks of all times, Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. Around minute 5 of the video, he said the following quote:

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original

As an entrepreneur, this phrase must be one of the more important thoughts you have to remember everyday.

I believe that creativity is one of the core elements for any successful business and sometimes it takes more time and effort than originally expected to see an idea come to life. But the only way to walk this long path is being ready to make mistakes and “big ones” in order to can achieve the real goal.

Well, these are just my simple thoughts, hope you find them interesting. I recommend you to take 19 minutes to enjoy the amazing TED Talk of Sir Ken Robinson.

Sal

As I wrote in one of my latest posts, for this year I want to write my goals and resolutions, to help me stay focused to achieve them. Because it’s my first year writing them, I’ll try to keep them simple. Here they are:

Business:
- Publish new version of Tarful’s website
- Start one side-project
- Launch first iOS app

Personal:
- Run more
- Start a photoblog
- Move to my new apartment

So there they are, some easy to do and some not so easy… Let’s see what happens