Archive for 2009

Leaving a Comment was Never that Easy

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

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!

Comment box

Polls get a splash of color!

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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

Purple poll

New: Share your Top 5 lists on Pollsb

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

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

It’s raining new features, hallelujah!

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

People who think like me

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!

Amandarama Tries to be Emo

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

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.

Are you emo? Check yourself now.

How healthy is your breakfast?

Monday, January 5th, 2009

By now, if you’ve been using Pollsb, you’re probably aware of the magic of the “Am I” pages: a quick way to ask a question about yourself without having to type anything: just insert a picture and go. At the office, we’ve got loads of ideas on future “Am I” pages, and are planning to launch a new one every week.

Our first new “Am I” page for 2009 is Is my breakfast healthy? in which we invite you to snap a quick picture of your breakfast, upload it, and let people tell you whether you’re a health nut, or cruising down the highway to strokeville. Try out breakfast test out, then go vote on other people’s breakfasts, and if you have a great idea for an “Am I” page, leave a comment on this post, and let us know. We just might use it.