Original article here

This was a post to translate the article to spanish with my personal touchs.

It’s been 80 years since the last time that Buenos Aires was dressed in white. This are the pictures that my family sent from there.

(Photo credits: Javier Fasani)

At movil we need beta testers to track and to improve the user interface in a SMS sender application.
The users will get 8 SMS for free and in the future they will be able to gain more credits.
We only ask to install the .EXE or the browser buttons and to use it at least 3 times a week.

Something to take in account is the mobile numbers format:

34600123001
Country code plus Mobile number
All together and just numbers.

If you wish to send to two different destinations just separate them:
34600123001,34600123001

Beta registration page:

http://movil.be/signup
We will be really proud to have at least 100 users on board at the end of July. Thanks in advance for your interest!

After turning on 30’s I realized that I was producing more than ever, joining in about 3 different projects every month while doing the other’s maintenance. Ten years before I didn’t know what to do with my life, I was still studing graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires and if someone asked I would probably say that I would like to become a graphic designer.

The cliche “It feels like just yesterday that I was 20″ became true.
Have you ever felt that a decade passed by in a snap ?

In my 20’s I started doing small things for the web while working uncovered in a Pen Shop, a place where I printed out things for arquitects and designers in a big plotter. At that time I started dating a crazy girl of the bed’s shop near my work. She was incredibly beautiful. I loosed my brains once again, while getting out of work earlier without permission just to catch up with her.
I got fired soon, the history vanished and I started staying more time lonely with my computer. Getting fired of the library was sad because I was broke once again but soon it proved that was the best that ever happened.
I started doing flash things, scripting and databases all together at that time. And slowly I left design more and more for development.
Ten years afterwards I’m not designing almost anything, except of fixes here & there in my own sites. But loocking backwards I recon that staying 3 years in the career and using programs like Adobe Illustrator helped me out in what I do today.

The Menorca return

Even though after my last 3 days lonely trip to Menorca Island I was more de-stressed and in a “slow down” mode… after coming back and checking my bank account I realized I’ve just spend about 600 € in a 3 days trip. The stress is right near the corner after this wonderful return.

This joined with the car insurance, the rent, the boy and the rest and I started July without any debt but with almost cero in my 2 accounts… Thanks to “the expensive magic” of the credit card I will be able to get food and gasoline while eating my next month salary’s. But, Well I’m fucking thirty doesn’t it ?
Now I will have to start fom cero, re-think, rewrite and connect the dots looking backwards. Because you can never connect the crucial dots of life in the future, you need to look at the past, and then you may be able to somehow collect all the signals, the failures, the unpredicted… LIFE

So I’m in this crucial period of redefining a lot of things and I expect them to be better in a near future. Making deals taking hard desicions and other things that are not fun to deal with.

After all this rant, I still love what I do and that’s all what matters after all. I enjoyed every euro that I spent and every trip I made, of course I made a lot of mistakes, great and expensive ones. But I learnt the lessons and that’s what matters.

Nel Fasani is kind of growing and has a lot of attitude. There is lot of work, production and X.xxx € web development invoices to be paid in a close future.
The thirties start quite well.

NOTE: This article was written in English mood and will be not translated to Spanish. Nel picture taken by his mother Sylvie.

SEO AND INDEXING

Just commented in one of my emails today:

Look how good is for your brand or website to have videos on YouTube:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=plongee-mallorca

(This was a video I uploaded 3 weeks ago to tell my friend about YouTube.)
I sent you this because I think it’s great to get more awareness and traffic, so to promote your web, is ideal to have videos on YouTube with your brand in it. Now when someone makes a search that matches your video title you get the firt positions on Google with the video and a thumbnail.
It may be good for your brand that this is happening, and I don’t think it was the same before Google bought YouTube, now having the majority of flash video indexed pages globally.

UPDATE: Check out also “Anil de Mello was right!” in Martin’s blog. Anil for sure knows how to make a YouTube generation video and bring it to the top. Check also that this video easily went to the top search listings in a related search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=led+sausage+geek+style

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