Pollection Team Blog

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?

We can’t believe it has already been a week since we released our Facebook application. We got some really good feedback from our early adopters and published a refresh to the product last night. If you have already used the application you will immediately notice two major improvements: the visual touch ups in the poll widget, and better navigation of public polls.

We also included a number of other improvements such as

• Searching based on tags
• Ability to ask multiple friends to vote
• Ability to post any poll to your profile
• Ability to see the next poll without voting

among others. Let us know what you think.

We still have many more exciting features that we will be releasing in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned.

If you read any blogs or even traditional news outlets last week, you might have noticed that a fascination with Facebook is in full effect. In response to Microsoft acquisition rumors, Scoble thinks that Microsoft doesn’t deserve Facebook. Read/WriteWeb ups the ante and devotes one whole week of analysis to Facebook, and John Battelle asserts that maybe Facebook has grabbed the mojo stick from Google!

You might say wow, just in the week you guys released your product on Facebook everybody started talking about them. What a coincidence! We here at Pollection don’t think of it as a coincidence. It was all a well planned PR push by us, the only flaw was that we forgot to have them mention our product :-)! No worries though, we will get that going soon…

One of the common themes that emerged from all this coverage was the fact that grownups are starting to get plenty of friend requests from Facebook universe. Which is pretty much inline with the changes in user base demographic on Facebook we have been reading about. So, the natural question is how many new friend requests have you been getting in the past couple of weeks? Or better yet, how many Facebook friends do you currently have?

This was the topic of the latest poll on Read/Write Web and we decided that it might make sense to ask this question from our users on Facebook. We have include the poll that is running on Facebook right now in this post [did we mention that our polls run across multiple web properties and aggregate the data? Well, more on that soon]. Once it is done we will compare the results with what Read/Write Web readers have to say and let you know.

We are launching our product on Facebook platform tonight. Our application, Polls, is an F8 application that lives natively inside the Facebook universe. Polls application allows you to create your own multimedia polls for free. You can then place the poll on your profile, invite friends to vote, and monitor the results. It allows you to use images, videos, or sounds in the poll. Here are some of the features we are launching tonight

• Create Rich Polls: Your polls can include movie clips, images, or even songs. Simply upload your media files during poll creation and that’s it. We take care of everything else. You can use these media files for the poll question itself or for any of the answer choices.
• Share with Friends: Once you have created your poll (or if you come across a cool one by someone else) you can easily share it with friends or post it to your profile. Like any other content in Facebook, click on the share button and spread the joy.
• Comment on Polls: Click on the comments button and we take you to the poll page where you can also leave comments for the poll just like you would write on somebody’s wall.
• Friends’ Opinions: See what polls your friends are interested in. Click on the Polls link in the Applications menu (upper left hand side) and we show you the recently created polls by your friends and also which polls they have been voting on.
• Invite Voters: If you want a friend to definitely vote on your poll simply go to the poll page, enter their name in the invite box on the upper right section of the page and click Vote. A notification (similar to a new friend notification) will show up the next time they login to Facebook which takes them to the poll for their vote.
• Promote your Poll: When you create a poll, it is automatically added to your profile. This way, visitors to your profile will see the poll and can vote on it right on your profile. You can even do more by sharing the poll from your profile.
• Keep in Touch: And of course we publish your actions to the news feed so your friends know what you are up to. If you create a poll or vote on a poll, a story is published to your mini-feed. For example

So, what are you waiting for? If you are a Facebook user click here to get our application. You can read more about it here. If you have any suggestions or comments, don’t hesitate to email us or leave us a message here. We hope that you enjoy our application.

Welcome to our team blog. We will be using this blog to update you on our product and new exciting features that we roll out. You will also see posts about building a web startup company and all that goes with it. We hope you visit often and find the content useful. Don’t hesitate to give us feedback.

Let the games begin…