We recently conducted an online survey to get to know more about you, the users of motigo. Most of your answers were as we had expected, but some were also rather surprising.

It has been a great learning experience for us to get our assumptions about who you all are blown away and replaced by actual facts. The whole process of discovering who our users really are have made us all create our own new archetypical users in our minds, which has led us to launch a new persona effort. A HCI tool that we can greatly approve of.

Just for the fun of it, let me very shortly sketch one of our main archetypical users in bullet-form:

• Male and 40 years old
• Has his focus on developing personal and private websites with information about a specific topic
• Has only little knowledge about web standards and techniques like CSS
• Does not read the developer blog (Argh!!!! - not good!)

You also told us what you would most like to see in the future from motigo: Blogs and photo albums. Coming up.

And don’t worry - the lucky winners of the survey will be announced shortly and receive their prize: an iPod Shuffle.

It’s always cool to see your product get used in cool and innovative ways. To encourage such behavior, we added embed-able versions of our newly launched calendar. By placing a few lines of javascript codes to your static html page, you will automatically get a very dynamic calendar shown on your page. Just like you would show an ad from google - now just with some real content

Some of our users have done a really nice job of using these small-size calendars on their page. We feel that we should give you a view into how cool your motigo calendar can look and how nice it works. Check out these pages for inspiration on how you can improve your own site with your very own calendar functionality:

• Minigolf Club Classic KoÅ¡ice
  Has integrated the month view quite nicely into his existing design. The calendar fits seamlessly with it’s surrounding elements.
• de nieuwe sch@kel
  Has both integrated a calendar RSS feed into his calendar and uses the embed-able month view to show this on his page. Very nice!
• Historia de Guipúzcoa
  Notice how well the transparent background of the calendar works perfect with the general layout of the site.
• THE OZ…
  Check out how nicely the agenda view and the month view work together side-by side.

We are extremely happy to see the already widespread use of our newly launched calendar - and especially that people are using it both as we planned, but also in new ways that just want us to keep on improving it.

We are looking forward for finding even more cool uses of the motigo projects in the future. Do you know of some?