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Doings are transpiring

I am emerging from the darkness to inform you that we are working on a rebuild of Momentile.com.

I know that we haven’t been super-responsive to the feedback emails and bug reports. But, rest assured, we do care and we want you to continue to enjoy Momentile well into the future. Hence, the rebuild.

The new Momentile will be built on more stable, modern technologies and integrate with social networks (e.g. Twitter and Facebook) much more smoothly. The goal is to distill the Momentile experience into a polished, robust and reliable service.

I can’t give a timeline of when we’ll be launching the new site, but the wheels are in motion (functional requirements are complete, o_O!). So, please accept my apologies if I haven’t responded to your feedback or support requests and know that a better Momentile experience is on the way.

-Brett (The Momentile Code Monkey)

Who to stalk in the new year?

We’ve compiled a list of the top 20 most visited Momentile profiles for the month of Dec. 2009 for your stalking convenience.

Drumroll….

1. Greenaddie        momentile.com/greenaddie

2. isa_alcantara      momentile.com/isa_alcantara

3. MoringGlory      momentile.com/MorningGlory

4. Setesois               momentile.com/setesois

5. zenx13                  momentile.com/zenx13

6. Dominie               momentile.com/Dominie

7. Steffiedear         momentile.com/steffiedear

8. the77                    momentile.com/the77

9. LakeMom            momentile.com/LakeMom

10. Coffeebee          momentile.com/coffeebee

11. montserratlj       momentile.com/montserratlj

12. JennyVega          momentile.com/Jennyvega

13. I_A_P                    momentile.com/i_A_P

14. splorp                   momentile.com/splorp

15. brett                      momentile.com/brett

16. Truckface            momentile.com/truckface

17. derek                    momentile.com/derek

18. kwiditi                   momentile.com/kwiditi

19. JJLaBarbera        momentile.com/JJLaBarbera

20. Carkit                    momentile.com/carkit

Also, here are some nice bits of news that you may or may not have been aware of:

No more invite codes. Yep, that’s right, now anyone can join in on the Momentile action.

iPhone app is FREE. If you’ve got an iPhone or iPod touch, and you don’t have the app, now you have no excuse.

-Brett (The Momentile Code Monkey)

Survey Says!

Hello again,

A few weeks ago, we asked all you wonderful Momentilers to fill out an online survey, and an amazing amount of you were gracious enough to take the time to complete it. For that, we thank you. The information gleaned from the survey is invaluable to the growth and evolution of Momentile. And now for the results:

For the majority of your Momentiles, how do you take your pictures?

#1- Digital Camera, #2- Apple iPhone, #3- Mobile Phone (non-iPhone) , #4- Other

To upload your Momentiles, which method do you prefer?

#1- Momentile website, #2- Email, #3- Momentile iPhone app, #4- MMS

How often do you look at your Momentile Stalkees or Stalkers pictures?

#1- Couple of times a week, #2- Almost Never, #3- Once a day, #4- A couple of times a day

What mobile phone operating systems do you want Momentile to build an application for? (Momentile iPhone application is already available).

#1- Android, #2- Blackberry, #3- Windows Mobile, #4- Symbian, #5- Palm WebOS

If Momentile had an application for your mobile phone, would you purchase that application from your mobile phone’s application store?

#1 - Not Sure, #2- No, #3- Already purchased the Momentile iPhone app, #4- Yes

The Momentile iPhone application is $4.99 (USD) from the iTunes application store.  How would you rate that pricing?

#1 - Acceptable, #2- High, #3- Not sure, #4- Too low

If you forgot to upload your Momentile one day, would you like to be able to add a picture for that missed day at a later time?

#1- Yes (73% want this feature), #2- No, #3- Not Sure

If Momentile became a paid service, what would you be willing to pay?

#1- 75% want Momentile to be Free
#2- 25% would pay for Momentile

Would you be opposed to advertising on Momentile.com?

#1- 60% would not be opposed to advertising
#2- 25% don’t care
#3- 15% would be opposed to advertising

Would you like the ability to contact another Momentile user directly via the Momentile.com site?

#1 – 50% Yes, #2- Don’t know right now, #3 -No

Thanks again to everyone who filled out the survey, your input greatly influences how the site will grow. If you have any questions or comments, or just want to talk, please send an email to info at momentile dot net (or send us feedback through the site).

– The Momentile Team

Working in a code mine

Hello both of you who will read this:

Derek and I have been toiling away this month putting together some pretty sweet new features to enhance your Momentile-ing pleasure. At the moment, I cannot reveal what they are, just know that they are rad. That being said, we’re going to need some kind users like you to help us test these new features before they go live. If you’d like to volunteer for this mission, direct message us or @momentile us on Twitter. I will contact you with all the particulars.

Also, more cool stuff will be happening to the iPhone app as well. Again, I can’t say what that is, but rest assured it too will be rad.

And that’s about it for now. I’ll try to write an entry every week so any interested parties can check in on what we’re doing down in the Momentile code mines.

Thanks,

Brett Duncavage (The Momentile Code Monkey)

Breckenridge Brewery Event: The Recap

So the Breckenridge Brewery event has come and gone and, all in all, I think everyone had a good time (maybe that had to do with the free beer, just a little). Also, I would like to thank all of you who participated in the online event, and in the on-site event. You are the ones who really made this event a success, so I say this with all seriousness: Huzzah!

And, if you missed it, the winners were:

Carface (http://momentile.com/carface) for the “Favorite Place to Drink Beer” contest.

the77 (http://momentile.com/the77) for the “Celebrate Beer with Us” contest.

Let’s give them a nice golf clap style round of applause (even though they don’t really need it because they each got a case of Breck beer and that should make them feel pretty good, but let’s be civil here shall we?). If you missed out on any of this action, you can check out all the ‘tiles from the event here: http://momentile.com/events/breckbrews

This event was our way of saying thanks to all of you Momentilers out there and a way for us to test a few new things out that we think will enhance your Momentiling in the near future. So, 1000 thanks to everyone again, and don’t stop-a-momentile-ing!

-Brett (The Momentile Code Monkey)

An actual, real post! Holy crap!

Our blog here hasn’t gotten much love from us in the past. Well, truthfully, no love, at all, completely devoid of love, loveless, forlorn, I could go on.

I’m here to brush the cyber dust (which I imagine is extraneous 1s and 0s that lost their way) off our little cyber diary here and finally give it the attention it deserves. What does this mean for you, the Momentile user? Allow me to answer that question in the following paragraph.

Our original, and current hope for this blog is to make into a one-stop place for all news Momentile. Such as event announcements, new product and feature releases, calls for beta warriors, etc. This way we don’t have to send you an email, which we want to reserve for really important things (like outages). We may also post feature ideas here so the user community can discuss them and help us decide what features are needed most and how they should be implemented.

So, this has been a real post, not just a place holder post (which is really the equivalent of one of those “under construction” websites, barf). And I will certainly strive to update frequently as to encourage you to come back here and see what’s up behind the scenes at Momentile.

-Brett (The Momentile Code Monkey)