Poll Daddy Widget
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PollDaddy, which launched today, is an extremely slick-looking site that provides polling widgets for blogs (although the girl in the screenshot is kinda scary). Using the AJAXy interface, you can add questions and answers and drag the answers to different positions in your poll. There’s also a choice of eleven skins for your widget and a killer feature for power users: the ability to enter your own custom CSS and blend the widget with your site. You can then grab the code and paste it into your blog posts or sidebar, or get a direct link to your poll on PollDaddy. And that’s where I find it a bit of a letdown: the code is javascript, which pretty much rules out use on social networks: MySpace, Friendster, hi5 and plenty of others (exception: Piczo). I’d love for them to offer a Flash alternative.
Nonetheless, the widget looks great and displays the result without refreshing the page. The only cost is that the module includes a link back to PollDaddy.com - perhaps professional sites could pay a small fee to have that removed.
PollDaddy goes up against Quimble, Vizu, dPolls and PollPub’s new MySpace polls. Visually, it’s my favorite, but widgets are all about getting as much distribution as possible. Perhaps they could strike deals with the top bloggers to ensure that PollDaddy is their poll of choice, or even do what Digg did - make PollDaddy.com a popular destination for public polls. I imagine something like “Today’s Most Active Polls”, with a link back to whatever site the poll is being displayed on - that way, bloggers could actually gain traffic by choosing PollDaddy. They might also want to seek distribution through widget directories like TypePad widgets or Mashable’s sponsor WidgetBox. It sure is a purty site, but success here is all about promotion.
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