Tag: POLLS

Now that the Windows 7 SP1 download is available to the general public and it's also being pushed via Windows Update, we thought we'd check to see how smooth the upgrade process has been for you. It wasn't all unicorns and double rainbows here in the Download Squad bunker. One laptop refused to progress beyond 66% complete, even after several retries and reboots. Another workstation was left ...

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 ...

Urtak is a simple, non-Flash website which lets you craft a survey widget. Each question can be answered with yes, no, or maybe, and once you reply, you get a pie chart illustrating how others replied to the same question. To see how many other people answered a given question you need to hover over the pie diagram (thanks, Aemony!). There is also a nice Javascript animation as you post your ...

Moralize.us is a site with an interesting concept: users post hypothetical scenarios, and other users vote on whether a course of action is right or wrong, according to their own personal moral codes. It's a nice theory, that we can crowdsourcing our tricky moral dilemmas. In practice, though, the responses mostly seem to hover around the level of discourse you might find in the comments on a ...

Polls Boutique is a new web service that aims to answer the age-olf question: Is there room in this town for two easy to use online polling services? Because much like PollDaddy, that's exactly what Polls Boutique offers. But unlike PollDaddy, Polls Boutique makes it easy to add multimedia to your polls. You can add images, audio, or video clips. You can write introductions to your polls and ...

Looking for a quick way to conduct a poll? Online polling service PollDaddy has added a new Twitter feature that lets you ask a group of people what you should have for lunch, who you should vote for, or anything in between. Users can set up a poll in a matter of seconds. Just visit the web site, type a short question, and select a few possible answers. You'll need to enter your Twitter login ...

As you may know, the New Hampshire primary for the US 2008 Presidential election is today. Although web 2.0 itself has not been positioned as a major campaign issue, the power of the web and social networks has played a large role in not only individual candidate campaigns, but in the debate process itself. Additionally, with his victory in the Iowa caucus, Democratic candidate Barack Obama has ...