Tag: POLL

MicroPoll is a nice, free service for setting up single-question polls that you can easily embed on any website or blog. You give them your email (that's the only scary part, but it's inevitable with a service like this -- and you can always use a disposable account), create your question, quickly set up the possible answers, and you're done. You then get a piece of JavaScript that you can put on ...

Security firm Sophos has been all over the recent Facebook sharing shenanigans. The company took a little heat over their last poll, which seemed to claim that 60% of Facebook users were considering leaving the site over privacy concerns. Other blogs ran wild with the headline -- making it appear that a mass exodus was on the way and completely overlooking the fact that they had under 1,600 ...

With all the recent privacy issues that keep cropping up in the various social networks, it's no surprise that people are looking to find a way to protect users in a more proactive, permanent way. This week, the EFF got more deeply involved by posting a proposal for a Social Networking Bill of Privacy Rights. Not surprisingly, it's centered around the core tenets that users should always be kept ...

A recent, independent report claims that out of 15 Google users forced to use Bing exclusively for a week, 10 stated that would continue to use Bing after the end of the experiment. These (shocking?) results come after Microsoft hired a research firm to look into how 'transient' we Internet searchers are. Do we stick to Google through loyalty, or purely because there's no adequate replacement? ...

Track Your Happiness is the front end of a research project that seeks to figure out which factors contribute most to our happiness. If you sign up, fill out a 10-minute questionnaire about your life situation, and let the researchers poll you about your mood a few times a day via iPhone, you'll eventually get back a personal report. At first, this seemed a bit intrusive to me, but iPhone users ...

Jason recently wrote on Download Squad about a Facebook group aimed at eliminating Internet Explorer 6 from the web, and Lee even found a script that reminds IE6 users to upgrade when they visit your site. Not everyone is ready to let IE6 go, though. Just ask the folks behind Save IE6, a site dedicated to the preservation of this "powerful and versatile" browser. Save IE6 features a petition ...

In our reader poll, most of you thought Facebook should pay attention to the user backlash against its new design. Well, it turns out that they've done just that, with an in-depth blog post that acknowledges some of the main concerns people have expressed, and announces several new features due to roll out soon. One thing that's happening right away is an update to the new "highlights" sidebar ...

There's a buzz going around about a poll on Facebook, where 94% of the almost 800,000 respondents gave the site's new redesign a thumbs-down. That's a pretty big sample size, so it seems clear enough that at least a portion of Facebook's base isn't happy with the changes they've made. The important question might not be "do people like the new redesign?" though. It might be, "Does it matter ...

Poll Authority is an easy poll-creation service that generates nice tidy multiple-choice polls you can paste into your website or blog. A lot of blogging services and social networks have their own polling systems, but as far as the platform-neutral free poll generators go, Poll Authority looks pretty decent. With the free version, you get unlimited polls and a bit of customization in terms of ...

Been so busy reading passport records of presidential candidates that you haven't had time to keep up on the week's geekier news? Not to worry, we've got you covered. Here's a few of our favorite stories you might have missed: Flipping the Linux Switch: Installing and configuring Linux This week we had a twofer in our Linux 101 series. First up, we wanted to show you just how easy it is to install ...

It's been about a day since Microsoft officially released Windows Vista SP1. And after uninstalling the SP1 release candidate and running Windows Update a few dozen times, we've finally got it up and running on our test system. The good news is that our test PC does seem to be a bit more stable. The bad news, well, not really bad, but other news is that as we knew all along there aren't any real ...

Poll Junkie is a no-frills web service that lets you create simple polls without having to sign up for an account. All you have to do is give your poll a name, a date on which to stop accepting responses, and then you can configure your questions. The site lets you create four types of questions: multiple choice, yes/no, rating, and ranking. You can have multiple questions on one poll, and you can ...

Are you dying to know some answers to a brewing question you have? Get the answers out with PollMappr. There are plenty of online poll generation tools that demand a fee for usage, and a few free ones that tend to stray on the dull side. PollMappr lets users put polls on their blogs, websites or social network. The fun doesn't stop there however, PollMappr maps where on earth the answers are ...

So I've been dying to know. Are you excited for Windows Vista? Are you going to upgrade? Are you going to boycott the whole thing? Are you still using Windows 3.1? Leave your rants, raves, and tearful goodbyes to Windows XP down in the comments. ...

Sometimes scheduling meetings and get-togethers sucks. The difficulty of finding a date and time that works best for everyone increases exponentially with the number of people involved. Doodle aims to simplify things. It's a simple web-based polling app that lets you list possible dates and times for an event and then survey all of the interested parties. When you create a poll, you're given a ...