SodaHead grows from polls to conversations
You may know SodaHead for the embeddable polling widgets it has offered for years, but the company has been steadily turning itself into a destination site where people can ask questions and discuss issues of the day. The result has been a sharp increase in traffic over the last year, from some 166,000 users in December of 2007 to nearly 2.3 million users in December of last year, according to comScore.
Following a recent redesign, the… Continue Reading
Polling widget company SodaHead raises $8.4 million
SodaHead, a company that provides a polling widget for web publishers that it also uses to prompt discussions on its own site, is seeing some decent traction. It has gained more than 600,000 members total since launching last September, and has logged a total of more than four million comments on its site.
To use SodaHead, you create a poll widget on its site, then embed the widget code into your site, similar to competitors like… Continue Reading
Poll by SodaHead: Is it okay to export friends’ emails from Facebook
SodaHead is one of many companies that offers a polling widget that you can embed on a blog or social network. Others include Polldaddy, Pollection, JS-Kit, Vizu, and others. But SodaHead differentiates itself by being focused on social interactions.
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SodaHead pairs polls with features such as discussion forums and Myspace-style user profiles, so users can both vote and discuss the issue presented in the poll, and do things like comment on each others’ profiles.
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