Introducing Twiigs.com
Andrew and I should write a book (well, maybe a blog) detailing all of the games and leagues that we've come up with together over the years. Usually this amounts to nothing more than a new way to have fun at the dartboard or mini-hoop (Bocce Darts, Dart Dunk Contest, On Fire), or occasionally an innovative fantasy sports league (Survivor Hoops, Markinson Cup). One time it led to the creation of a Hearts tournament (the SHHNHB). I guess we have pretty similar sensibilities when it comes to these things, so we end up bouncing a lot of ideas off of each other and seeing where it takes us.
So naturally, he and I were hashing out a fantasy sports idea a few months ago, and it led to a discussion of an idea for a website, centered around user-created online polls. After further brainstorming, we decided it was worth building, so we quickly laid out the basic navigation, look and feel, and functionality, then Andrew took the reins and hammered it out entirely on his own. The result was Twiigs.com!
Twiigs allows users to create polls, vote on ones created by other users, and host any of them on their own websites and blogs. You can see an example poll in the right nav bar. It happens to be one that I created, but I could have hosted it even if another user had created it. All votes on the poll through my site or the Twiigs site or any other site hosting the poll contribute to its results (though a user has the option to make a poll private, which keeps it unlisted and therefore allows for voting to be restricted to a particular community).
I tried other poll services before, but they all made it difficult or impossible to control the look and feel of the poll to match my site design, and when I voted, they took me to a separate page to view the results, which is a clunky user experience. And when I went back to my blog, the poll looked the same: no results, still awaiting my vote. With Twiigs, the host has style control, and the results display in place of the poll after a user votes. So much better! If you want a more detailed look at the poll, you can click on the "more at twiigs.com" link.
We definitely have some other fun features in the pipeline, but as it is, Andrew has done an amazing job of programming the site, so I hope you all take the time to check it out, play around with the various features, perhaps register a username, and let us know what you think!
So naturally, he and I were hashing out a fantasy sports idea a few months ago, and it led to a discussion of an idea for a website, centered around user-created online polls. After further brainstorming, we decided it was worth building, so we quickly laid out the basic navigation, look and feel, and functionality, then Andrew took the reins and hammered it out entirely on his own. The result was Twiigs.com!
Twiigs allows users to create polls, vote on ones created by other users, and host any of them on their own websites and blogs. You can see an example poll in the right nav bar. It happens to be one that I created, but I could have hosted it even if another user had created it. All votes on the poll through my site or the Twiigs site or any other site hosting the poll contribute to its results (though a user has the option to make a poll private, which keeps it unlisted and therefore allows for voting to be restricted to a particular community).
I tried other poll services before, but they all made it difficult or impossible to control the look and feel of the poll to match my site design, and when I voted, they took me to a separate page to view the results, which is a clunky user experience. And when I went back to my blog, the poll looked the same: no results, still awaiting my vote. With Twiigs, the host has style control, and the results display in place of the poll after a user votes. So much better! If you want a more detailed look at the poll, you can click on the "more at twiigs.com" link.
We definitely have some other fun features in the pipeline, but as it is, Andrew has done an amazing job of programming the site, so I hope you all take the time to check it out, play around with the various features, perhaps register a username, and let us know what you think!
posted by Chang Kim at Saturday, April 21, 2007
1 Comments:
Very cool site! I'm already using it! Finally a polling interface that doesn't suck!
(paid for by Chang)
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