Easily create tiny, embeddable polls with MicroPoll

Filed under: Utilities, Blogging, web 2.0

MicroPoll is a nice, free service for setting up single-question polls that you can easily embed on any website or blog.

You give them your email (that's the only scary part, but it's inevitable with a service like this -- and you can always use a disposable account), create your question, quickly set up the possible answers, and you're done. You then get a piece of JavaScript that you can put on any page to embed the survey and a short link that you can tweet or share on Facebook (if you still have a Facebook account, that is).

You get to see some interesting analytics for the replies to your poll. One amusing point (for me) is that the "location" map is US only; if you're voting from elsewhere on the planet, you're not on the map.

You can set some nice options for your poll as well. By default, multiple voting is allowed (strange, but true). However, you can make it so that every IP address is allowed to vote just once, and you can also log all of the IP addresses of the voters.

All in all, this tool seems like an odd mix of simple functionality and advanced features. The interface feels slightly uneven and rushed; they have loads of functionality, but it is exposed in ways that don't always make sense, and the default options are kind of wonky.

Still, if you have the time to configure it and need to present the world with a single-question poll, this can save you quite a bit of work.

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