PollDaddy Poll Widget Outfit Acquired by WordPress
By Jeffrey Peel – PollDaddy provides polling and survey widgets to over 300,000 users around the world. Launched in October 06, the company has grown to become the number one provider of poll widgets online. The company’s polls are used on Social networks, blogs, corporate websites etc.
But what you may not know is that PollDaddy is based in Sligo in Ireland and was acquired earlier in the week by Automattic, owner of the ubiquitous WordPress blogging platform (upon which none other than this and the Number 10 web sites – among thousands of others – are built).
According to Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s CEO, “As we started to look at building out our own service for this, it became more obvious that, while on the surface it’s a very simple problem, there’s a lot of hidden complexity and opportunities for some really powerful features under the hood…There are probably a dozen companies addressing this space right now, but as we started to survey the space I was struck by how often I’d see this “PollDaddy” thing pop up.”
As well as providing Pro accounts for businesses, PollDaddy recently launched a new service called PollDaddy Answers which is a directory of over 400,000 polls which have been created on PollDaddy so far.
