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January 5, 2006

Quick Polls with dPolls

Michael Arrington

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I came across Israel-based dPolls today. It’s a very quick and easy way to create a well designed, Ajax-rich interactive poll that can be integrated directly into a website.

The service is free. After a quick registration you can create public or private polls, and there is also an option to get the html and place the poll directly on a site. I’ve done this, and have pasted a quick poll below (Note: I am seeing performance issues already - this may get worse before it gets better). After voting, the current results appear within the poll box. Nice tool.

The only problems I encountered: you cannot edit a poll once its been created, so you have to simply start over. Also, the image upload feature doesn’t seem to work.

I believe there are other services that do this as well. Please let me know.


Create polls and vote for free. dPolls.com

Ajaxian has written about this too. It looks like the founders emailed the usual suspects. :-)

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  1. Topper Bowers

    January 5th, 2006 at 9:59 am

    Hi,

    I run Quimble.com which is a social polling site as well. Of course, you can edit your polls there ;-).

  2. Bony Boy

    January 5th, 2006 at 10:05 am

    Ouch, never good to have your product get a runtime error when someone is reviewing it and giving it good reviews.

  3. Pete Cashmore

    January 5th, 2006 at 10:27 am

    Oops - it’s very broken now! BTW: I reviewed Quimble here:

    http://mashable.com/2005/12/19.....ine-polls/

    I’ve seen a few others too, but I can’t remember their names right now.

  4. Pete Cashmore

    January 5th, 2006 at 10:31 am

    Oops - it’s very broken now! BTW: I reviewed Quimble here:

    http://mashable.com/2005/12/19.....ine-polls/

    There are a few other sites along these lines, but I can’t remember their names right now.

    PS. The comment submission failed the first time, so don’t be surprised if this comment gets posted twice.

  5. Sahad

    January 5th, 2006 at 10:51 am

    http://www.blogpolling.com is another service, which is free and decent. It’s part of Blogharbor where I host my blog.

  6. PaulPr1

    January 5th, 2006 at 10:52 am

    And here is another contender: http://www.e-ballot.net. This one allows you to create online ballots on any topic imaginable (sports to politics), invite some friends, and create ballots based on models other people created

  7. Hurt

    January 5th, 2006 at 11:03 am

    It also isn’t good when you try to signup and clicking the “register” button does absolutely nothing. I hate filling out forms for no reason. Almost as much as I hate sites like dpolls asking me what my gender is. Quimble.com, here I come.

  8. diego

    January 5th, 2006 at 1:33 pm

    i use quimble too:

    http://wwwhatsnew.blogspot.com.....-blog.html

  9. Erik Schwartz

    January 5th, 2006 at 2:20 pm

    If you edit your polls you screw around with the validity of the results.

  10. DB

    January 5th, 2006 at 4:58 pm

    Another site to check out is Vizu - http://www.vizu.com. There is a large inventory of existing polls that you can export or you can create your own and export it.

  11. Mathew Ingram

    January 5th, 2006 at 7:38 pm

    For what it’s worth, I use Quimble too at http://www.mathewingram.com/work and it’s great.

  12. Brett DeWoody

    January 5th, 2006 at 9:39 pm

    For more feature-filled surveys and polls SurveyMonkey(www.surveymonkey.com) is pretty good, though it definetely IS NOT free. They do offer detailed analysis and other useful tools though. They also have a list of about 30 or so other polling sites (all pay) at:

    http://www.surveymonkey.com/Pricing.asp

  13. tayler

    January 5th, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    Cross-browser compatibility sucks. Period.

  14. Singpolyma

    January 5th, 2006 at 10:41 pm

    “Q: How many times can I vote to the same poll?
    A: Once a day.”

    and I was about to be impressed too… what’s the point of a poll people can admittedly cheat on?

  15. Singpolyma

    January 5th, 2006 at 10:43 pm

    “”Q: How many times can I vote to the same poll?
    A: Once a day.”

    and I was about to be impressed too… what’s the point of a poll you can admittedly cheat on?

  16. ycc2106

    January 6th, 2006 at 1:10 am

    What’s realy cool about Quimble is that you don’t have to register!

  17. chickerino

    January 6th, 2006 at 2:05 am

    the HTML produced is invalid. it uses tables (bleurgh!!). it runs slow on my (reasonably new) computer when there are more than 3 options. and the scrolling polls when there are more than 4 possible answers is unusable - i couldn’t figure it out straight away. at first it looked as if the totals didn’t add up to 100%

    AJAX polls are a reasonable idea, but this is poorly executed, imho. sorry! :(

  18. S.K

    January 6th, 2006 at 7:24 am

    It sucks.

    I went through the pain of creating one. Finally all I got was some error message stating that there some problem with their server.

  19. Jack0

    January 6th, 2006 at 11:30 am

    Welp, it seems only the bitter respond :)

    I think it’s ok. None of the problems chickerino stated occur on IE.. things are a bit less robust on other browsers, with that I agree..

    Overall.. a real nice site…

  20. Ted Smith

    January 7th, 2006 at 10:50 am

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  21. Cadence

    January 7th, 2006 at 10:46 pm

    No offence but that poll works quite well but hell it’s ugly. Sure good for a quick poll but it really isnt too nice on the eyes.

  22. Topper Bowers

    January 9th, 2006 at 6:15 am

    Quimble is now beta-testing AJAX polls. If you’re interested, you can see it in action here: http://blog.quimble.com/?p=38

  23. anthropocentric

    January 9th, 2006 at 9:42 am

    My favorite is still SurveyMonkey. Great service. Highly Highly recommended.

  24. Sid Steward

    January 9th, 2006 at 9:53 am

    PunchPoll is an experiment of mine in ~distributed~ polling. Anybody can add a poll question, but the poll itself is broken up and presented across the entire network of partners. The idea is to make the polls harder to game.

    You can see an example on this blog post of mine:

    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8916

    Here is the data I have collected so far from running PunchPoll from only my own sites:

    http://punchpoll.com/poll_view

  25. Kathryn

    January 20th, 2006 at 1:01 pm

    I use StellarSurvey.com, http://www.stellarsurvey.com With StellarSurvey you get free unlimited account.

  26. Topper Bowers

    March 8th, 2006 at 1:46 pm

    Way late to comment now :-) but Quimble now has inline AJAX polls.

  27. Al

    March 16th, 2006 at 9:11 pm

    Here is another simple but nice poll blog (http://www.wipoll.com). Bloggers can insert polls into their blogs via links.

  28. Al

    March 16th, 2006 at 9:13 pm

    Here is another simple but nice poll blog (wipoll.com). Bloggers can insert polls into their blogs via links.

  29. Shalin Jain

    July 4th, 2006 at 10:44 am

    You could give http://www.tezaa.com a shot. Focuses more on the community.

  30. Nocavehoes

    August 21st, 2006 at 12:22 am

    Try http://www.pollpub.com for free polls. They have a great ajax implementation, and the easiest polls on the web. http://www.pollpub.com ajax polls are great for public or private purposes. If you like dPolls or Quimble you will love PollPub.com!

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