5 posts and columns on polls

Facebook Redesigns Questions Product Around Friends' Advice

in Social on March 24, 2011 at 12:55 pm PT

Facebook today relaunched its Questions product, which had been in a limited beta since last summer. The product now focuses on asking for friends’ opinions and recommendations, with answers ordered in a poll format. It is much more of a social search tool.

Survey: More Confidential Data on Tablets Than Phones

in Mobile on March 10, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Apparently those nice big screens on iPads and other tablets make it a lot easier to view sensitive information. A new study by Harris Interactive (and paid for by Fuzebox) finds that Americans are more likely to have confidential business and personal information on their tablets than on their smartphones. People are divided, however, on whether their data is quite secure or really rather insecure on such devices.

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Many Valley Execs Write Checks To Whitman Campaign

in News on October 27, 2010 at 12:19 pm PT

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman may be destined to lose her campaign to be the next governor of California–recent polls show she’s running considerably behind long-time California politician Jerry Brown–but she sure can’t blame a lack of support from Valley big wigs and corporate America in general.

Newspapers’ Bad News Get Less Bad–But Not by Much

in Media on September 21, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Is the newspaper advertising slump about to end? Nope. But it’s continuing to get a little bit less awful. A survey of some of the remaining analysts covering the industry, as well as people who actually work in it, concludes that Q3 ad revenue will be down 25 percent. Awful by any standard except those of this year: Q1 was down 28.3 percent and Q2 was 29 percent.
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Follow the Election Anywhere

in Mossblog on September 13, 2008 at 12:15 pm PT

Now there’s a cool new way to follow the 2008 presidential election anywhere you go. Today I discovered a rich, data-packed app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that displays updated polling data, both nationally and state-by-state, for the presidential campaign. It’s called Election ’08.
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