Jan Horna and Mike Robinson met through Facebook via the Web 2.0 Czech group. They decided to collaborate on a project for the launch of the MySpace developer platform and were looking for an idea for a useful application in contrast to the fun-for-5-minutes apps circulating on Facebook. Mike asked Nicola Robinsonova (a qualified trainer with a background in the market research industry) if she had any ideas.

“After a particularly humiliating encounter with the Tábor planning office, my new year’s resolution was to up my Czech vocab by 10 words a day (this being what I recommend to my English students). Then, Mike said he was looking for an idea for a Facebook style widget, and that was it: a really useful widget for people learning a language.”

Mike and Nic are a British couple living in the Czech Republic. Mike is a web programmer for digitalegg.net, Nic runs DateMyMate.net & investigates Eco technology (500yearvision.com). Jan (pronounced Yan) is a Web 2.0 and social software architect, providing web hosting market surveys at HorMart.cz. The fourth member of the team is a Birmingham based graphic designer, Mike’s business partner at Digital Egg Ltd.

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