It’s crunch time here. Will the team make it with a ready for QA homepage on Thursday?  Who will win the office pool? (we placed bets on the date in which the new homepage will be ready). In the meantime, here’s another great homepage feature: the Pollsb spirit:

The spirit section is a graphical interpretation of the most discussed topics of that week on Pollsb. So, for example, the more political polls get posted, the bigger the politics chunk of the pie chart will be. The drop down menu will also allow you to see the pie chart for different demographics of the general voter population on Pollsb. It’ll show you the most dominant age group in the site, as well as where most voters come from, and what’s the gender segmentation for any given week.

Day two of our homepage marathon.

Spent some time last night reading all of the comments we received on the homepage poll. Most of you loved it. Some thought it was a bit too busy. We suspect it appears busier than it actually is in the screenshot: the actual design is much bigger, and will spread across your entire screen. At least that’s the opinion of our design guru:

Today I want to write a bit about one of the most exciting elements of our new homepage: the “Your Feeds” section.

Appearing only when a user is logged into the site, and taking the center stage of the new homepage, is a new feed box that will hopefully revolutionize the way you use Pollsb.

It looks something like this (click on the image to enlarge):

The feed box will make it easier to stay on top of everything that’s going on with the site. It’ll notify you whenever someone replies to a comment you made or commented on your polls or on your user page. It’ll let you know when friends of yours post new polls, or vote. It’ll update you on votes your polls are getting, and even send you a notice when a friend of yours adds someone as a friend.

We hope this box will become the first thing you look at, when you log into pollsb, and we designed it to match with lots of feedback we received on our current activity section. As usual, we’d love to get your opinion on this new feature, so just comment here, or send feedback a message on the site. We appreciate it.

We’ve been secretive about it, but the rumors are true: Pollsb is about to refresh its front page with a whole new look and feel.

Some major changes include moving to a larger screen resolution of 1024×768, featuring results as well as polls, and adding a feed box with updates on your polls, comments, and friends.

People here at the office have already began playing with this beast of a page, testing it out and debugging. We have Thursday set as a possible launch date. So this week at Pollsb HQ, is all about the homepage: design, functionality, bugs, and interface.

I’m going to post updates as the week progresses, and try and get as much feedback from pollsb users as I can. to start, here’s a sneak preview of the new design (click on the thumbnail to enlarge the image). I’d love to hear some first impressions. Just message me on the site with your input, or leave a comment here.

We are proud to introduce a brand new feature here at pollsb: it’s a way to see the people who voted on a poll, before even voting on it! It’ll help you follow your friends around the site, see who votes on what, and who’s active at the moment. Yep, all that without even having to visit the results page. Isn’t that cool? Here’s how it looks:

Do you like it? Vote on our poll.

Someone just rocked the entire Pollsb office here with this piece of video, proving without a shred of a doubt that shock rocker Marilyn Manson (some people in the office are big fans) is BALD. That’s right. The whole goth, super-straight hair thing, is just a clever wig.

In this video, Marilyn Manson is exposed in all his baldness when an insistent fan keeps yelling at him, asking to come and shake his hand. At first, Manson’s bodyguard’s keep the fan out of the star’s reach, but finally Marilyn agrees, and puts his hand out to shake the fan’s hand. The man the hugs Marilyn, and accidentally causes the star’s wig to fall down from his head. He’s immediately  reprimanded by Manson’s bodyguards, while Manson is being escorted away, his completely bald head shielded by someone’s coat. The video then replays and slows down to show the concrete evidence: Marilyn Manson is bald.

Here’s the incriminating video:

And here’s the original poll, and how we learned about this:

We’ve had a wave of “am I emo” polls here on Polls Boutique lately. It started with a few users posting their pictures and asking “am I emo?” and turned into a full blitz of other users joining the trend and asking about their emoness (some, obviously not emo).

But that was just the beginning.

Soon enough, pollsb users felt they needed a clarification on what emo exactly is. Was Edward Scissorhands emo? and how about Siouxsie and the Banshees? Were they emo? asked pollsb user Bmccue7.

“What the heck is emo anyway?” asked Officeshrew and received a link to the wikipedia page on emo:

“a style of hardcore punk which describes several variations of music with common roots…Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to refer to the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo… As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the mainstream style. As a result, the term “emo” became a vaguely defined identifier rather than a specific genre of music.”

And on emo fashion:

“Emo is also often associated with a certain fashion. The term “emo” is sometimes stereotyped with tight jeans on males and females alike, long fringe (bangs) brushed to one side of the face or over one or both eyes, dyed black, straight hair, tight t-shirts (sometimes short sleeved) which often bear the names of emo bands (or other designer shirts), studded belts, belt buckles, canvas sneakers or skate shoes or other black shoes (often old and beaten up) and thick, black horn-rimmed glasses.”

But emo is so much more than a music genre. And the people at pollsb wanted to explore the boundaries of the term. Was Adolf Hitler emo? asked Splotzie humorously posting a photoshopped photo of Hitler as an emo kid.

Am I emo? asked Bearden829 with an ‘emofied’ version of her buddy icon pic. What about cats? Can cats be emo? asked someone. And how about this dog? It looks pretty emo. Which of my cars is emo? asked car model enthusiast Bushlightfever.

Raging emo debates started on every one of those polls.Everyone told Bmccue7 he’s definitely more of a hippie than an emo, and almost everyone told Ultranerd he was more of a wannabe emo than a real one. Edward Scissorhands was definitely emo, everyone agreed, but Siouxsie wasn’t, since emo didn’t exist back then.

Now we can’t wait for someone to post the ultimate poll, mashing two of pollsb’s main obsessions into one:

Are the Jonas Brothers emo?

Post the poll, and you will certainly be linked from here.

A poll conducted by Dr. Cliff Pickover illustrates that if the world’s five religious leaders (Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Confucius, and Mohammad) were in a room together, Moses would be the first to speak.

The poll was conducted on Polls Boutique asking: “If Jesus, Moses, Mohammad, Buddha, and Confucius were gathered in a room, who would be the first to speak? What would he say?”.

Over 400 respondents answered and placed Moses in first place with a third of the total votes, and Buddha coming in last place. It seems individuals have placed the religious from Eastern countries as more reserved, and the Western world as outspoken.

Results were as follows: Moses – 33%, Mohammad – 27%, Jesus – 21%, Confucius – 11%, and Buddha – 8%.

Dr. Cliff Pickover is a best-selling author of over 30 books in science, mathematics, and self-help.  He is an associate editor, editorial board member, and columnist for separate Science and Computers magazines, and is also a member in the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

Full results, stats, and poll can be found at the original poll.

It’s an exciting Tuesday morning here at the Polls Boutique labs. We’re all tired and overworked, but we couldn’t be more satisfied: a brand new version of the site is online, and it includes some features that are bound to bring happiness to the lives of pollsters all over the world.

The new features include:

• Safe browsing: from now on, as a default, you won’t be seeing adult materials on polls boutique, unless you visit your user page and specifically choose to do so by clicking on our new Adult Content button.

• New Categories: we’ve reorganized the topical poll categories on the site. From now on, when posting a poll, users must choose at least one and up to three categories from a list. This makes browsing categories much more accurate and fun!

• Block User Option: if you can’t stand someone’s polls, just visit their user page and click “Block this user” and poof! their polls won’t bother you anymore.

• Private Poll Option: make your poll private, so only people you invite can see it.

There’s much more to come. So hang on, and enjoy the pollsb ride.

Wow. Jonas Brothers fans have certainly taken a liking to polls boutique and are posting lots of Jonas bros. polls all over the place. Polls include the classics: Which Jonas Brother are you? poll, and favorite camp rock song, and even the interesting: “If the Jonas Brothers could only have one thing: good looks or good music, what would you want them to have?”

Check out all of our Jonas Brothers polls.

Putting up our personal pictures, videos and music online is nothing more than a way of asking: what do you think about my new outfit? should I cut my hair? Should I get this tattoo? I made this video, what do you think? and so on… More often than not, we need others’ opinions to keep ourselves in check, and be aware of other points of view. One of the best ways to getting an advice that will be truthful and honest, is trying to get the outsider’s opinions, people who don’t have any obligation to be nice, who have no intencives to embellish the truth: the crowd.

On polls boutique, asking questions like that is made easy. Just upload your pictures, your videos and audio, and enjoy instant feedback and answers from loads of people from all over the world. Instantly find out what people think about your new haircut, your tattoo, and your hair: