summer vacation

August is here. Nitzan is already on vacation and Tamar will join her soon. It is "camp dad" time.

PicUp

I attended two year end parties, a great opportunity to test PicUp but I did not get the nerve to ask people to use it, I suddenly felt that a. it sounds funny to ask people to take a picture of my screen. b. there were only 2 cameras and most parents used mobile phones. and besides, I had already changed my Samsung Nexus S with its horrible camera to my beloved Sony Xperia Z with its great camera.

+Joel Spolsky was right - rewriting gets you nowhere. I did move PicUp to +OpenShift since my 1 free year at +Amazon Web Services expired at the end of July.

Co-Founders Wanted of Tel-Aviv

Having dedicated entrepreneurial time, in light of the PicUp situation and with the words of +Eyal Gura ringing in my head, I thought about contributing sweat equity to bigger ideas - hence attending Co-Founders Wanted of Tel-Aviv. From this event and the conversations that followed it I learned that many people have not so innovative ideas (PicUp?). I have learned that many are looking to form a team and I see how important this is and why no one will invest in an individual effort.

In the room opposite the meetup, an +Intel sponsored launch party for +Photoparty Dex was held, an event photo sharing app for android - double irony.

New Idea

In between PicUp and co founders speed dating, it came, a BIG idea. It is not tech big as it is socially big. I have presented it to several people and the most memorable response was "it is either the most stupid or genius idea I heard", I think it is good but I need a team for this one.

Vineyard planted

This is the vineyard after planting about 1,050 vine saplings. I did some real physical work on this one.