Quibblo.com is new service that allows users to create polls, quizzes, and surveys quickly and easily. In addition to being able to create a poll on Quibblo.com, users can include a widget on their website (personal blog, MySpace, whatever - Quibblo offers various copy-paste snippets for use).

The interface is well designed, stepping you quickly through the process of creating your desired widget. Polls are one question items that have no right or wrong answer and are used to gauge public opinion; surveys are similar to polls, but have more than one question; categories are similar to surveys but attempt to place the user within a particular category (ie. What kind of shopper are you?); and finally, quizzes are multi question items that have correct reponses (think trivia).

Quibblo does a good job of keeping your attention as well. As soon as you visit their homepage you are presented with a poll, as well as a list of the most popular polls and quizzes currently. After voting you are presented with the results as well as a list of polls other people took (similar to Amazon’s “other users who bought this item also bought” feature) as well as a list of polls similar to the one you just took.

All polls, quizzes, and surveys can be tagged and are then displayed in an easy to browse tag cloud. Search is of course incorporated, as well as a StumbleUpon-esque Random feature which will take you to a random item across the site.

Registration is not required to take any of the surveys, but if you want to create your own you will be required to register. The information collected is minimal and only requires a quick email verification.

I am slightly concerned about the monetization of this service. If Quibblo gains popularity the bandwidth coming from their widgets and direct access to the site could create some pretty large bills. Right now there are a few advertisements throughout the site and I thought I saw a pop-under during the research for this review (bad, Quibblo - bad!).

I think some social networking features would be a great addition to this service. The ability to connect to other users who create polls and surveys similar to your own could lead people to meet some great new friends. In addition, Quibblo implements some great looking pie charts on their website, but when you embed the widget on your site you only get the plan-old bar graph display (circa 1997). Quibblo competitors have really done a great job of making the polling process look slick as well as offering the user a variety of styling options - Quibblo really needs to step it up in this respect. Styling of your widget is possible - with some HTML and CSS knowledge - but the average user won’t have the ability to do this and Quibblo should implement an easy way to accomplish this.

All in all, Quibblo is an excellent service that fills a niche that isn’t that competitive at this point. I see various places they can improve but Quibblo allows you to fulfill your polling needs very quickly with no fuss.

Disclosure: Betaflow.com was compensated for this review.