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.
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.
We’re collaborating with the #1 Vanessa Hudgens fansite, vanessa-hudgens.com, to give you five free copies of Baby V’s new album, Identified.
All you have to do to win is logon to Pollsb and post questions about Vanessa, her music and acting career, her relationship with Zac Efron and her latest appearance on High School Musical 3. The 5 users who post the polls with the most votes, will win a copy of V’s CD.
For those of you who don’t know Baby V, here’s the gist:
Vanessa Hudgens is an actress and a singer, who attained fame by starring in the Disney Channel hit High School Musical. Dating her co-star beau, Zac Efron. After releasing her debut album, V, the 20 year old actress became one of the most famous Disney stars to date.
So what are you guys waiting for? Create a poll, send it to your friends, link to it on facebook and MySpace, get your grandma to vote for you, and remember: the 5 polls with the most votes win.
Until now, there was only one way of knowing if you’re a vampire or not: you’d have to be positive on a number of factors: a need to drink human blood, a love for everything black, pale skin, fangs, problems with sunlight etc…
But now, in spirit of Twilight madness season, we’ve got a better way for you to find out if you’re a vampire or not. Just take a fierce photo of yourself, go to our new Am I a Vampire page, upload it, and get a quick response from all the other vampires running around on Pollsb. Much better than trying to drink blood only to find out it tastes like rusty metal, right?
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.
