FreeGovernment.org, a non-profit, open source political organization based out of Boston, is running an experimental campaign in an effort to directly represent district delegates via online polls and forums.

They are looking for a representative to run for Massachusetts’ 8th Congressional District who, if elected, will be contractually obliged to vote according to the majority vote of online verified voters.

A more detailed explanation of the exact mechanisms of this voting process is available on www.freegovernment.org.

Polls are already a much relied upon indicator of political trends and public opinion. When used in this manner, however, the right technology is a critical component that ensures accurate voting and prevents ballot tampering. We employ similar technology within our Quibblo widget which allows our uses to gather data and opinions on a wide range of topics.

Perhaps with the success of these advances in polling security, a direct outlet to our elected representatives will soon become a reality.

NPR’s hit program, All Songs Considered, is using Quibblo’s polling technology to tally up the votes for their survey of the Best CDs of the Year (So Far).

Over 4,000 people (and counting!) have already voiced their opinion. Be sure to check out the blog and cast your vote for your favorite album of 2008 thus far. You can also take this poll right on Quibblo, too.

In order to improve our service, we’ll be migrating our data system over the weekend, June 6-8. Some of you may experience some intermittent downtime while you’re on Quibblo during those days.

Thanks for your patience while we undergo this change!

We’re officially one week into the Quibblo re-launch and the view from here at Quibblo Central looks amazing; the servers never caught fire and all our co-workers are on speaking terms again. Considering how well things seem to be running, we thought a quick list of things to keep an eye on might be helpful.

New user registration continues to sky rocket so if you’ve been a regular user for some time try and pull some of the newbies in to you circle of friends. It’s always easier to find new content on Quibblo if you have a lot of friends making and taking quizzes all the time.

The new Quibblo widget is turning up in some real exciting places, if you come across someone using it in an interesting way, we’d love to know.

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One of the soon to be released widget features is the ability to skin the widget with your own color pallet. This should make it much easier to match your quizzes up with the pages you’re sticking them on.

Fans of personality quizzes now have the ability to re-take a quiz if they so choose. And you can now see all possible outcomes in a particular personality quiz. These had been huge requests since the update, so we’re happy to see them both available.

By now you’ve probably noticed that Quibblo just went through a pretty major overhaul.
With the flick of a switch our crack team of Ninja developers took what was already a great website and made it a really wicked awesome website. I figured maybe it was worth take a look at some of the new stuff together.

First up the obvious stuff, some new colors and a tweaked layout should make it much easier to navigate the site. We’ve had some of the best designers in the world working on this, so we hope you like it.

Next up is Clair, Clair is going to be your guide on Quibblo. If you’re new to the site, pretty much anywhere you can interact; you’ll find a video tutorial with Clair who’s always available to help you figure things out. There are already enough words to read in all these amazing quizzes, so we decided to do something different and created these short video help sections that you’ll find throughout the site.

Featured polls are going to be a great way for us to show off some of the amazing content our users are creating every day. But it’s not always going to be popular content that ends up in this space; we’re really going to dig deep for the best stuff Quibblo users can come up with. Feel free to recommend a poll if you stumble across one you think would work well here.

The new featured quizzes section is similar to the featured poll, except this is where all our other feature quiz types for the day can be found.

The featured member section is a brand new element for the Quibblo front page. We’re obviously all about our users, without you there would be no Quibblo, so this is our way of both showcasing as well as thanking you for all the great content you create. Just like with the Featured polls, if you find a user who you think deserves to be recognized point them out to us and we’ll make sure they get the attention they deserve.

Probably the biggest addition to the site and something that I’m still amazed can even exist, is our new Quibblo Widget. This crazy flash widget will allow you to post a quiz on pretty much any web page you want. Anywhere you can embed code, you can stick this widget: Myspace, FaceBook, bebo, you name it. And you can use it for any quiz, not just the ones you create. It’s a really slick tool and it couldn’t be any easier to use. Give it a try, we think you’ll like this a lot.

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Well we are nearly two days into 2008, and it would appear that nearly 40% of you have ALREADY broken your new year’s resolutions! How is that possible!? Tsk tsk…

If you’ve checked out the popular quiz topics pages on Quibblo, you know how cool it is to have all the quizzes about your favorite topics all in one place. But now these pages are even better, because there’s a comment section, where you can discuss the quizzes, and share your views about the topic. We’ve always let people comment on quizzes, but now you can share your comments on any topic you like. Try it out now on one of these popular topic pages: 2008 Election Quizzes, Anime Quizzes, Baseball Quizzes, Bible Quizzes, Celebrity Quizzes, Christmas Quizzes, Disney Quizzes, Does He Like Me Quizzes, Emo Quizzes, Fall Out Boy Quizzes, Football Quizzes, Fun Quizzes, Funny Quizzes, Gay Quizzes, Girl Quizzes, Halloween Quizzes, Harry Potter Quizzes, Inuyasha Quizzes, Kissing Quizzes, Lesbian Quizzes, Lord of the Rings (LOTR) Quizzes, Love Quizzes, Movie Quizzes, Music Quizzes, MySpace Quizzes, Naruto Quizzes, Are You Popular Quizzes, Relationship Quizzes, Sports Quizzes, Star Wars Quizzes, Stupid Quizzes, Teen Love Quizzes, Teen Quizzes, Trivia Quizzes, TV Quizzes, Vampire Quizzes, or Zac Efron Quizzes.

Hey Baseball fans! Just in time for the Major League baseball playoffs, we’ve got a special new feature for Baseball fans.  It’s a whole page of Quibblo specifically devoted to baseball quizzes and everything having to do with baseball.  The playoffs are really starting to heat up, so visit the baseball quizzes page quizzes to take a quiz or poll and see what other Quibblo users think.  Play ball!

For a long time, Anime has been a popular topic among our members.  In response to this demand, we’ve created a special section of our site devoted to Anime Quizzes.  This page is a forum where people can find the topic quizzes about Anime, and also share their own quizzes and their thoughts on Anime in general.  Enjoy!

Attention Harry Potter fans: You asked for it, and we’ve created it–a special area of Quibblo just for you! There’s now a dedicated page devoted to Harry Potter quizzes.  This is a page where you can find quizzes about Harry Potter, see which Harry Potter quizzes are the most popular, and share your own thoughts and comments about Harry Potter all the fun Harry Potter quizzes on Quibblo, as well as encourage other people to take your quiz.  Enjoy!