Histropedia BETA v1.0!! The big news this month is the launch of our first official public beta version. There is still a long way to go till we get a product that is ready for the mass market, but for anyone with a little patience we now have a real look at what the end vision will look like. The latest release gives a complete re-design from the prototype, with a simplified searching system and new reading window giving a view into the related content for each event.

Even when you know with all your heart your project has merit and can make an impact there's nothing like hearing it from someone else. So I would like to thank Chris Ellis (@MrChrisEllis) for this message he sent us recently, we couldn't have said it better ourselves. "Your start-up is going to play an important role in the stories we tell ourselves about the past. As Taleb said if we tell ourselves the wrong stories about the past we lose our future.

The final stages of development are under way and the beta version of Histropedia will be launching soon, hopefully in the summer of 2013. So now seems like a good time to take a look at some of the latest designs for the website. The Timeline The site has been designed to have a clean, elegant look. The events on the Timeline will be colourful so we kept the rest of the design in black and grey-scale, with just a dash of blue here and there.

We have a new logo!!! and we love it, but I wanted to take a minute to show you what we had, what we didn't go for and the final result. Our First Logo The first logo we made ourselves, and with only amateur design experience I think we did quite well! The idea behind the logo was to represent the colourful interactive timeline website that we are making, the coloured bars along the bottom are the timeline and the H is encloses in an event card.

It’s been just over a year since we made our first designs for Histropedia. Too much has happened to talk about it all here, we would need a timeline for that Layouts, feature and product descriptions may have changed along the way but our message has not, “The world needs a better way to view and compare its history” History belongs to us all, it is our past and sets the path for our future, if we cannot understand our past we cannot see our future.