Pollection Team Blog

Redwood City and Fremont, CA– November 19, 2007- Frengo, a mobile social utility to make cell phones more fun, and Pollection, a wisdom-of-the-crowd platform for the social web, today announced its partnership to provide a mobile extension of the popular Facebook application, Sex Appeal developed by Pollection.

Sex Appeal (http://www.SexAppealHQ.com) is an application that allows people to vote the sexiness level of their Facebook friends and assign points to them on a “Sex-o-Meter”. Users can then boast their aggregate Sex-o-Meter score as well as their Sex Appeal title, which may range from “an acquired taste” all the way to “smokin’ hot” and “hottest of all Facebook.” Having become one the hottest applications on Facebook, Sex Appeal offers an interactive game for its fast growing user base.

Leveraging Frengo mobile, Sex Appeal users can receive mobile text alerts, invitations to play and rate others while on the go. Frengo adds mobility to this and other Facebook applications and provides an easy way for social network application developers to keep their community connected, informed and entertained via text message or wireless web when they are not in front of a computer. This partnership with Frengo is a first step toward providing a full mobile experience for Pollection customers wanting to play and use their Facebook applications on the go.

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A while back we built a little fun application called ‘Sex Appeal‘ that uses the Pollection platform to let Facebook users put their friends through an elimination game of sexiness. We just wanted to showcase our platform and have some fun in the process.

Well, it turns out our users loved the little application. We have been live for 5 weeks and the application has been growing steadily ever since! We recently crossed the half a million user mark on Facebook. It has been a lot of fun to see how users interact with the application, how sensitive they have become to their ‘Sex-o-Meter’ scores, and how they have met new people in their communities through the application.

I was digging through our databases to find some data I needed for an analysis when I thought I should checkout the poll impression and vote counts on the application as well. It turns out we recently crossed a milestone on Sex Appeal without realizing it:

• Number of Poll Impressions: 10,312,539
• Number of Votes Cast: 6,487,970

Yes, we passed the 10 million poll impression mark. And with over six million votes on who our users think are sexy, we have a wealth of knowledge about sexiness . In order to see the wisdom of crowds working, all you need to do is checkout the top sexy page in the application

Congratulations to all our sexies and to their friends for recognizing them.

We are working on exciting new features for Sex Appeal right now. So stay tuned for more fun and cool features soon.

PS: If you are a developer and you think utilizing the Pollection platform you can build other fun applications don’t hesitate to drop us a line. We are always open to new ideas and collaborative opportunities.