Facebook Friday: Pollection

Pollection enables Facebook users to create online polls. People can then deploy these polls in their Facebook profile, MySpace page, blog, or website. They can embed images, videos, and sounds into the poll. They also control access to the poll: private, friends only, and public. One intended use is to create gossip, celebrity, and rumor type polls, but Pollection is equally applicable to market-research tasks.

Comments

[John]

I speculate that the reason the "$4.95 - Get more Answers" is on there is because some people (i.e. market researchers) would really like to know what people think on certain topics.

[Mike]

I just finished conducting my own Facebook poll (not pollection) but the official Facebook product. I am a very satisfied customer. I was curious to see how many Facebook users knew about vacation rentals and considered using them in the future. I got 200 responses in less than 24 hours.

Granted the FB Polls can only hold one question with up to 5 answers at a time but hey, if it's easy and intuitive the users participate. Keep brining the apps. Keep brining the products. I am a Facebook fan.

[edward]

The Internet as a Platform Will Continuously Evolve

Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA franchise, and Chairman of HDNet, the richest blogger in the world claims The Internet is Dean and Boring days ago in his blog. Why? Here is his reason: Every new technological, mechanical or intellectual breakthrough has its day, days, months and years. But they don’t rule forever. That’s the reality… Just like wheels, printing presses, cars, TV, radio, electricity, water…Its very difficult to develop applications on a platform that is ever changing…

Well, Mark Cuban draws a wrong conclusion though his observations are right. Why?

1. The slow adoption of high-speed broadband during past 5 years in the US is not a problem of the Internet, or the proof of the Internet innovation stalls, it is a matter of domestic policy issues

2. From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, the Internet has demonstrated its continuous evolution as a great platform in endorsing lot of application-level innovations, such as Wiki, Blog, Social Networking, Podcast, just to name a few

3. The continuously evolving of the Internet is good instead of bad, actually the innovation of the Internet itself is not fast enough, and that is why we call for Internet 2.0 to serve upcoming Web 3.0 better

Frontier Blog - search but not REsearch
http://www.hwswworld.com/wp

[David Mackey]

Still no mention of Wakoopa?

[Ali]

Guy
Don't you have anything to talk but Facebook and Truemors?
Come on, you love creativity and innovation...don't you..Please practice what you preach.

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Ali,

I love creativity and innovation which is why I write about Facebook and Truemors. Also, I've been at a summer camp all week last week and all of next week, so I shouldn't be blogging at all.

Guy

[Marc Duchesne]

@Meg : speaking of creativity, i really do prefer the one which Yahoo!Pipes enables (for instance). Just because it's free, it's open, and it's useful. Like the Internet was aimed to be at its begining, and like the Web 2.0 was supposed to be a few months ago.

[Meg H]

I'm glad to see all the hype. Facebook aps are bringing out a neat creativity in people. It shows just what can happen when a company is willing to share some API & transparency. However, because it is member only, it may not be the platform of the future.

Guy, if you aren't on the list already, I think you would be interested in the Social Portablity Group at google (http://groups.google.com/group/social-network-portability)
If they actually come up with a standard for social networks to share info, closed communities like facebook won't be as popular.

And dang, as a budding entrepreneur, Pollection will be dang useful for polling my market. Thanks for the heads-up.

[Fred]

@Marc: I believe a lot of people agree with you (young people too, not just "dinosaurs"), left scratching their heads at what that Facebook hype is all about... I think it might be time to realize the Emperor is naked, and move on.

And Mr. Kawasaki, I think you made a typo: I know you wrote "Pollection" but shouldn't it read "Pollution" ? ;)

FG

[Marc Duchesne]

I really don't get it. What the heck is this Facebook hype all about ? To my understanding, Facebook is a closed system, where I can share "things" with people called "friends". Okay. I can do that with many other platforms and Web 2.0 tools already. Now, Facebook offers me to do all that stuff from only one place. Fine. For instance, I can do online polls. Sounds familiar, but okay, let's do online poll with a Facebook app. Hey guys (I didn't say "Guy" ;-), am I the only one to get this message : " Want More Answers for This Poll?
You can get 50 more answers for $4.95. Click here to order." ???
So, you want me to go on Facebook, use some fancy new apps that I already get since years on other sites, and pay for it ???
Time to wake up, Folks : Facebook is NOT going to change the World. At least not mine.
_Marc