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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

If you follow this blog you know we’ve been working on a new homepage for Pollsb for quite some time. We almost launched it in July, but then decided to take a moment and rethink some areas, rework some glitches, and improve other areas on the site. So today we’re proud to present you with not just a new homepage, but a whole new look for Pollsb, with a refreshed look for every internal page on the site and added functionalities.

We consider this new version a public beta, and want to encourage you, dear Pollsb community, to help us map all the remaining bugs and glitches. Go, explore the site, and if you find any problem, we’d love to hear about it. To report any bugs, email us at: info [at] pollsb [dot] com.

To learn more about new areas of the homepage, and what we were thinking when we created them, visit our past blog posts about the new homepage.