Quimble is a simple service for setting up and keeping track of online polls. What's really exciting is that Quimble is embracing openness - once it has an open API (coming soon!), you'll presumably be able to create polls from within your web app. This would be like the wisdom of crowds meets Amazon's Mechanical Turk - automated research and polling! But I'm getting ahead of myself. For now, you can use Quimble to create polls, display them on the site and place them on your blog. You can also subscribe to polls via RSS. From the Press Release (sorry, did you say "Press Release"? Surely these guys have heard of the blogosphere?)....
The idea for Quimble grew out of large group meeting. Twenty friends of Topper Bowers (the site's founder) needed to decide on a restaurant to use for a reunion. Group email was not working as no consensus was being reached. The initial version of Quimble was born. The votes were quickly counted and comments and discussions were all held in a central place rather then scattered through inboxes.
Since that initial version, Quimble now makes it easier than ever to add a poll to a blog or website (copy and paste one line of code). Quimble has boomed with Spanish speakers which is a testament to the ease of the English-only interface.
Oh yeah, and did I mention that Quimble is built on Ruby on Rails? Go Rails!
[via Dion Hinchcliffe and his excellent list of Web 2.0 companies]
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