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!

And then, there was the Polls Boutique blog.

It took us a while to post this blog. Too long, if I may say so. It’s not like we didn’t see the need to start one: blogs are such central pillars in today’s web development process. The truth is, we were so busy creating Polls Boutique, that we didn’t get around to doing it. And here we are, 9 months since we launched our Alpha, starting our own blog! Wooohoooo!

Polls Boutique is a tiny company. Seven people all in all, front to back. You can see almost all of us here (note the funny hats):

Our vision for Polls Boutique is to create a social destination that revolves around people’s opinions. A way to meet people who have the same (or the opposite) opinions as yours, a way to learn about your friends, make new friends and even discover your own opinions, through voting.

We also want to let people use our poll tool everywhere on the web: on blogs, social networks, websites, and message boards. And we want to let people be able to make poll any way they want: with full customization and the ability to embed any rich media (video, audio, links etc). More on that in the next post, where we’ll be discussing our new poll widget.