Exclusive: Polls team is jiving with PollIt!

The Polls team (the team that generate's a ton of user input across the AOL network) continues to rock, with an alpha version of "PollIt". The idea behind this is to allow you to create polls, comment on them, syndicate them across the web, share them -- and more. You can embed on any page across the web. Polls also have categories.....

The team has built out the API's - the key part. Now they have an alpha application that is built on the API's. This is exactly the right way to go. The PollIt site was created by the team and has some fancy AJAX UI.

And of course, the Polls team want your feedback. In a Poll and a comment.http://pollsdev-d01.polls.aol.com/_polls3/viewPoll.jsp?pollId=3_47

Enjoy. Great work team!

Disclaimer: this is the first alpha build. Be nice. Expect it to have bugs. But most of all, play with it and give feedback to the team.

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A few things about the product :

- The website is at http://pollsdev-d01.polls.aol.com/
- This website is available outside the firewall
- You do not need to sign in to view, vote or comment on a poll. Name and e-mail address are mandatory when commenting, but neither need be "real"
- You need to sign in using SNS or Open Id in order to create a poll. The screenname or the open id used to create the poll is displayed with the poll

Can I please request you (and others) to vote and leave comments (the good, the bad, and the ugly) at http://pollsdev-d01.polls.aol.com/_polls3/viewPoll.jsp?pollId=3_47

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