Pollection Team Blog

Robert Berkman at Intelligent Agent has conducted an experiment with running market research surveys on Facebook. In his experiment he compares Pollection with Zoomerang and Facebook Polls.

We are very happy that Robert likes our service when compared to alternatives

“Polls” by Pollection was at least as good as Facebook’s [polls], if not better, and it was free.

For his experiment, he used Pollection to find out if Facebook users think Facebook could ever replace Google as the leading Web search engine, following up on Robert Scoble’s controversial posting.

As Rebort has mentioned in his blog post, below are some of the advantages you get when using Pollection polls compared to other services

• Multimedia Polls: You can include images, video, and audio in your polls
• Free Polls: Your polls are always free. Of course, you can purchase more distribution for as little as $5, if you wanted to get votes quicker
• Cross Platform: You can embed the same poll on Facebook, on MySpace, or any other place you can post HTML code

Joe Morel at WhosTheBoss.net has recently started to take a look at some of the polls that are running on Pollection and decipher what all of this public opinion expressed so freely means. The first poll that has caught his attention is one that has to do with gadgets:

What’s your favorite tech gadget

After analyzing the results, the Boss has concluded that

What’s the really interesting thing here? The cell phone dominates…People want to connect and communicate and they don’t really care about the technology they use to do that.

We will continue to monitor Joe’s blog for more interesting analysis and will highlight his posts here every once in a while. But make sure you check his blog as well not to miss any of his thoughts on popular polls.

Today it was brought to our attention that there is a possibility Guy Kawasaki, of Apple Macintosh Fame, might be using our application. Our Informant, Eagle Eye had found some evidence to this effect while reading Guy’s blog.

It turns out Guy was announcing their release of Truemors on Facebook and is looking for testers to play with his application. He also included a HowTo guide that tells you the process of installing his application ‘Truemors For Friends’ or TFF.

Step 5 of his HowTo illustrates the instructions for reordering Facebook applications in the main menu. And there lies the evidence! The screenshot lists all the applications he has installed and our application is proudly present. [Good eyes Eagle!]

Guy: Thank you for trying out our application :-). We would love to hear about your experience using it. You are the first A-List blogger that we know has installed our application.

Here is the complete list of Facebook applications Guy has installed:

• Photobucket Postcards
• SocialMoth
• TechCrunch
• Slideshows
• Polls
• KnowledgeBook
• TopFriends
• Hockey Fan
• NowPublic.com
• Honest Box

I think we are in pretty good company here. Who will be the next notable blogger installing our application?