This could include persuading a large company to provide feedback on a product or polling a host of companies about their technology problems.
That is some achievement, almost overshadowing his crowning by a hair products website poll as "toddler with the best hair", trouncing Beyoncé and Jay-Z's daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, and North West, the daughter of Kayne West and Kim Kardashian.
That game, broadcast on the West Coast and Hawaii, was billed as the first high school "national championship," even though it took place on the fifth week of the season, and was essentially a product of polls.
In Ohio on Friday, he tried to undercut Mr. Gore, portraying the Democrats' tax cut proposals as products of polling.
One year on, SocialMart, underpinned by data from Yandex.Market, is now offering users a variety of social features to customize their shopping experience: for example, users ask for and give opinions on products, run polls and get reputation points for their influence.
He needs to step outside the cautious incrementalism that is the inevitable product of excessive polling and focus-group testing.
Facebook launched, and then pulled, a Polls product between 2007 and 2009.
After launching out of TechStars NY back in June, PopTip has been building out a Facebook version of its instant polling product.
"While Wayin provides strong realtime capabilities, the combined solution will go much deeper by offering marketers the ability to gather data through polls, product feedback and reviews and other campaigns to further understand customers and drive results," McNealy said.
And, in an experiment to fix them, TechCrunch has partnered up with tech startup Reframe It, which is developing a deliberative polling product for technology policy issues with the help of a grant from the Knight Foundation.
