September 27th, 2009
We are very excited to announce that Ram Srinivasan of Wellington Partners Venture Capital is joining our advisory board. Ram is a seasoned technology executive based out of Palo Alto, California. With over 25 years of engineering, marketing, and management experience, Ram will be providing us with a breadth of knowledge on how to further our marketing and business efforts.
In his past, Ram was President and CEO of Fireclick, a web analytics company, where he led the company from inception to acquisition within five years. Before Fireclick, Ram was Vice President of Product Marketing at RightPoint Software, repositioning the company from data mining efforts into a premiere provider of real-time marketing solutions.
Needless to say, we are very excited to have Ram collaborating with us to continue building the best polling platform on the Internet! Please join us in welcoming Ram!
September 13th, 2009
Ammap software screenshot
GoPollGo’s background technology is a pretty interesting setup. While Ruby on Rails and JQuery may be considered the norms, there are a number of other technologies that we utilize to build the best polling experience possible. We love one piece of software we use so much here at GoPollGo that we decided to write a post about how great it is! That software is our mapping software: Ammap.
Ammap is made by a small company located out of Vilnius, Lithuania. We here at GoPollGo are strong believers in user interaction. So, after investigating its capabilities, Ammap was an obvious choice for us to use. Ammap provides detailed instruction how to create custom maps, thorough documentation on how to generate xml data for the maps to render and also have outstanding customer service and support — even from half a world a way! Not to mention they have done a spectacular job on the core product itself!
We are thrilled with Ammap and recommend everyone interested in using mapping software to take the plunge! It has proven well worth it for us! We have some interesting things in the works revolving around Ammap that we can’t wait to share with the community in the not-so-distant future!
September 11th, 2009
We are happy to say that after about four months of development we are now live publicly for the world! Explore the site and give us feedback. We’re excited to have you all visiting the site and look forward to providing you with the best polling software on the web!
Comment Notifications
September 15th, 2009 no commentsOne of the best things that has happened since launching in public beta is that we have gotten a lot of feedback. If you have submitted feedback and haven’t heard a response yet, it is because we have received quite a large amount in such a short amount of time. However, one thing that many people have asked for is notifications to occur when comments are made on their polls. So we have asked The Friendly GoPollGo Email Robot to help us out, and he is now dispersing emails that look something like this when any of your polls get a comment:
A example of a comment notification
However, we also understand that not everyone wants this functionality. So we’ve added the ability for you to turn on and off comment email notifications on your account page. Here is a screen shot:
Notice we have added "Comment Email Notifications"
We’ve got a lot of things planned for the site in coming weeks. Keep your eyes on the blog for any and all updates. Feel free to post a comment about your thoughts on this post or recommend any other feature requests you may have.
Keep on Pollin’
Tags: Commenting, Emails, Features, Notifications