We’ve just added RSS support to each and every poll feed on Pollsb. This means you can now grab the RSS feed (by clicking on the RSS icon on the top of each page) from our site and get a fresh stream of polls right to your RSS reader, startpage, blog, or social network profile. You can grab the general feed for all the polls posted on Pollsb, or the editorial feed of polls that make it to the Pollsb homepage. You can even grab a specific topic feed, such as iphone polls: all you have to do is search, or click on a relevant tag, then grab the iphone polls RSS feed from the top of the tag’s page.
Here are 4 cool things to do with our RSS feed:
1. Voters: Add our editorial feed to your start page (igoogle, netvibes, or any other RSS reader) to start your morning with a fresh batch of carefully selected polls.
2. Bloggers: Add a topical feed to your blog or website: enrich your blog or website by offering your readers access to a world of polls on a relevant subject. Whether it’s fashion, technology, or celebrity polls, Pollsb has the relevant content and we’ll be happy to share: just grab the relevant RSS feed and place it in your blog or website.
3. Developers: Mash us up! Using our RSS feeds, web developers among you can go wild and use our data and content for a range of uses, applications and mash ups. We have some ideas for really great applications that can come out of this, but we’ll let you think of your own
4. Executives: by setting up a poll RSS alert for your brand, product, or keyword, you’ll find out when someone posts a poll about you on Pollsb, and be able to market research and follow real time customer opinions on your brand. All you have to do is search for your brand or product name, then grab the RSS link from the top of the search results page.
To learn more about RSS, what it means, and how to use it, go here.
So, who’s is going to be? The charming, confident and shy (at the same time!) Kris Allen from Conway Arkansas, or city boy with unbelievable pitch (and emo kid) Adam Lambert? We love what user iheartselena wrote about the exciting American Idol finale on her “Who’ll win American Idol” poll:
“So I would say: if American Idol was a singing competition, and was judged strictly based on vocal and performance abilities, Adam Lambert would take it without a doubt. but since it isn’t, since teenage girls are really the deciding factor, Kris Allen might win.” - read the rest of her analysis on her poll intro.
In preparation for the big finale, go vote on iheartselena’s American Idol poll, and check out all of the American Idol polls. Here are some of our favorites:
We’ve been thinking about adding more community features to our topic pages for a while now, and last week we’ve softly launched our first two Pollsb communities, starting from the two most popular topics on Pollsb: emo, and Twilight.
On the new community pages users can vote and comment on relevant polls, discuss general emo, or Twilight matters, see statistics and demographic information relating to the active members of the community, and meet people who also care about that topic. We’re going to keep adding features to our community pages, allowing you to follow a certain topic, adding RSS support and more.
Which new categories would you like to see opened as community pages on Pollsb? Let us know. And in the meantime, check out our emo community, and Twilight community.
Local CBS station, WBZTV, is covering the big Boston Marathon today, and has created a small polling arena for the occasion, using Pollsb’s poll widgets. So if you aren’t running the marathon today, the least you can do is go vote!
We’ve been busy playing matchmakers recently on Pollsb.
The idea: you vote, and we match you with others who share your opinions, displaying the percentage in which you match (based on recent votes you two have in common).
It’s important to remember: the way our opinions based matching mechanism works, The more you vote, the more meaningful the matching stats become. So keep voting for a while to find people who have a lot in common with you.
Find your opinion matches now: Log in to Pollsb, and start voting.
From now on, you don’t have to go to a poll’s page in order to leave a comment. Our brand new comment box appears right on the homepage poll (right after you select an option), allowing you to leave a quick comment right then and there. Go ahead - comment away!
We’ve just launched a new feature: an opinion-based recommendation engine that will give you a glimpse into other user’s favorite things (albums, movies, TV shows, books and video games). Here’s how it works: your user pages now include a “Top 5″ box which you can fill with your top 5 items from each category: Top 5 albums, TV shows etc… Once you fill those out, users whose opinions match yours will get to see your recommendations, and vice versa: as you vote on the Pollsb homepage, we’ll find people who share your opinions and show you the things they like.
We’re doing this because we think it’s a great way to discover new things you may have never heard of. Our assumption is: if your opinions match another person’s opinions, you guys might like the same things too!
Give our new recommendation engine a try. Go to your Pollsb user page now and fill in your Top 5, then start voting on the homepage and see what happens.
As usual, for feedback, contact us over at info[at]pollsb.com
We’ve just launched two major changes on Pollsb. The first is a new “Answer Me” box on the homepage, that shows you which people vote like you. It’ll make it way easier to find people you share opinions with, and hopefully match you up with the right Pollsb crowd. It’s just the first from a list of cool features we’re planning for that box on the homepage. Let’s just say, it’s going to be your ticket for the Pollsb ride. We’ve also cleaned up the homepage a bit and made it more neat and organized.
Another big (huge!) change is our new user page which was completely redesigned, and includes a set of profile questions for each user to fill out. Questions range from “Do you Smoke?” to “Do you believe in god?” and are awesome ways to let other people know more about you. We’ll be adding/switching questions as we go along. In the future, we’re going to do some pretty cool stuff with your answers to these questions and how they relate to your opinions… but we’re still keeping these plans hush-hush. Another great big change is an “Answer Me” box on your user page, that allows visitors to answer all of your questions right there on your page.
Still here? What are you waiting for? Go fix your new user page!
Online video personality, Amandarama, tries to switch her blong upbeat style and become emo, you know, cause the kids like it these days. She goes through a metamorphosis and uses Pollsb’s Are you emo wizard to check if she’s emo or not.
Here’s the shocking video footage: Amandarama’s Am I emo.
