We’re extremely proud to unveil the Pollsb flash poll widget. We’ve taken our time with this one. We’ve designed it, the redesigned it, we’ve added options that carry most of pollsb’s features (like social polling capabilities) into it, and we believe it’s the best poll widget out there. Our flash poll widget will work in practically every social network, blogging platform and other web service out there. It’s light, and easy on the eyes, and as usual, supports images, video, audio, links, comments and more.

It’s a thing of beauty. Take a look:

You can grab a flash widget from the “invite” screen, or from our poll widget page.

We’ve announced the launch of Pollsb for business last week, and briefly covered three products Pollsb has available to businesses interested in using the power of Pollsb, a giant community of questions and answers, and huge demographic pool, for quick, affordable market research, customer feedback, marketplace evaluation, content enhancement, advertising and buzz generation.

Today, we’d like to tell you a bit more about our Market Research program that allows you to get instant answers from real people all over the world, for a fraction of the price it would cost you to perform traditional market research. Using Pollsb Market Research, a client can pay either $4.99 for 24hrs or $19.99 for a full month of premium exposure on Pollsb.

Once you buy premium placement for your poll, and it is approved by our editorial team, it is given premium placement all over Pollsb.com: on the homepage poll rotation, and site-wide, on each and every internal page, attaining a high visibility in front of an audience of over 1 million eye balls a month.

And since our polls can include pictures, graphics, videos and even audio, you can actually generate buzz about your service or brand, while you market research! You can show pictures of your products, or even include a video advertisment inside your poll.

Another great thing about Pollsb Market Research is it works real time. This means you can check your results immediately after you poll is posted. You can get up to the minute updates on the voters, and their demographic characteristics. So there’s no more of the waiting time typically associated with traditional market research. With Pollsb, you have a question, you ask it, and you get immediate answers.

One last great thing about our service: the people who will be giving you their opinions, the members of the Pollsb community, aren’t your typical online market research people. They’re not on Pollsb to collect money, and they aren’t getting paid for their time as a focus group. They’re just people, from all walks of life, who enjoy asking and answering questions, and enjoy voting. They’re the real people you’d like to research.

Bottom line: for $19.99 you get over 1 million eyeballs of exposure, and instat, real-time, market research, done with real people. Go ahead, give Pollsb Market Research a try.

We’re happy to announce the launch of three Pollsb polling products geared towards businesses. The three products, united under the name Pollsb for Business, aim to help businesses, brands, and websites, small and large alike, to yield the power of Pollsb, a giant demographic landscape of questions and answers and use it for affordable market research, customer feedback, marketplace evaluation, content enhancement, advertising and buzz generation.

The three products are:

• Pollsb Market Research
• Pollsb Poll Zones
• Pollsb Poll community

Over the course of the next few days we’ll share more information about our new line of products, so stay tuned.

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:

Do you really believe Adam Lambert was in the bottom three?

Why do you watch American Idol?

Will you be voting for American Idol this season?

Could American Idol exist without Simon Cowell?

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!

Hey, check out the new colorful polls on Pollsb.com!