Internet Culture from London… and beyond
a Twitter poll with Polldaddy
TweetAutomatic, the company behind WordPress acquired Irish startup, Polldaddy today; it’s now dead easy to incorporate polls into blog posts, something that wasn’t possible before as Wodpress.com does not support java (grrr)
I recently re-installed TweetDeck on my laptop, and I’d like to use this as an opportunity to find out more about your fav Twitter desktop clients… and check out Polldaddy at the same time 
[polldaddy poll=1005643]
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Hi Samal,
Welcome – I’ll deifnitely try to write down some thoughts at some point this week