First Embedded Poll: Pola

Pola is a software application written in java that allows people to modify their pictures so that they look like they have been taken from a polaroid camera -- among other features. They decided to create a Pieall poll to see how many people would be willing to collaborate if the project was open sourced. We are happy to see how well the poll can be embedded in an existing site.

Thanks very much to the Pola guys who gave it a try and gave us many ideas about improving our embedded features.

We believe in Pie Charts

There have been several questions regarding the use of charts for displaying poll results. We would like to explain our choice because it is really important.

We believe pie charts are better to display poll results in the web than bar charts. In a pie chart you can always guarantee the spce that is going to be used: the area will never grow more than 2*pie*square.

Humans are better at understanding proportions by using a circle. Think of a wrist watch. The analog display is better in conveying the time consumed. A digital display showing only 7:46pm says very little.

When we thought about Pieall, we imagined a chart that could be portable to almost any medium without loosing context or proportion. But this is us, tell us what you think?

Pieall Polls in Facebook

We just listed our Pieall in the Facebook App Directory.

Take a look at it:

http://apps.facebook.com/mypieall/

New Group in Linkedin

We are glad to announce the creation of our Pieall group in Linkedin.

If you have any problems signing up let us know info@pieall.com .

Releasing Private Polls

Due to popular demand, we are getting ready to release a new version of Pieall with an option for private polls. Polls labeled private are not shown on the category listings or the index page. Only people that are selected on the "sharing" form are notified of the existence of the poll.

You can keep track of your polls, private and public, in the mypolls page.

Thanks to don Alessandro, who pulled an all nighter to get this feature going.

Let us know what you think at info@pieall.com

Meta-tags

We are excited to re-discover our users patterns everyday. We are currently changing the way our meta-tags are defined in order to bring more relevance to our user’s public polls. Users are creating highly relevant content that we believe should be updated on the search engines daily. We are planning to include better descriptions meta-tags hoping that this change will increase the page rank of the polls created in Piall.com.

As always, let us know what do you think at info@pieall.com

Support for "likes" in Facebook

We are testing our support for "likes" in Facebook. With this feature, whoever visits your poll can post in Facebook a link to your poll indicating that he or she likes your poll.

Send your comments to info@pieall.com

Happy piealling!