Qvey is a website which aids to create social surveys. In many survey sites, like Ciao, large companies ask for opinions on surveys, and the members of the panel are paid an amount (my experience is 70p upto £3). Often, an individual - or very small business - may want an opinion, but doesn’t have the resources to go through large consumer research firms.

A small business could use an online poll site like dPoll, though this does not allow you to do in-depth survey. Also, it does not give you the option to offer an incentive! Qvey allows you to carry out a survey with multiple questions, and also allows you to offer a financial incentive.

All recent surveys are listed on the site’s homepage, some have financial rewards (generally 1 cent, 3 cent or 10 cent) and some don’t. Naturally, you are more likely to do ones with a financial incentive, as every penny counts. Surveys are also placed into categories.

You can add cash to your account in order to create a paying survey, or answer other paying surveys. This, interestingly, is not done via. PayPal but through a credit card handler. Qvey charge 10% on every survey, so if you ask 100 people for a cent each you must pay $1.10. This is calculated through a nifty looking calculator, which probably uses AJAX.

To create a survey, you simply fill in a form where you specify a title, description, amount of users to ask, if you want it to be private or public, category and the amount you are willing to pay (anything from $0.00 to $30.99). A private survey removes it from public lists, and allows you to send the URL to the people you want to do it. After that, you add questions and the way in which they should be answered (short answer, long answer, rating or yes/no. You can attach links to questions, or files under 5MB like pictures, music and movies. I have created a survey here, feel free to complete it.

When you complete a survey, you see the results. These are generally displays as either a bar graph or pie chart, depending on the format of the question. The charts are animated and displayed in Flash, not AJAX. The site uses very little AJAX, and I’d love to see it when answering a survey or adding a question, for example.

The site’s design could also be improved. The colours aren’t very vibrant, and I’d like to see it handle higher resolutions better, perhaps centering the sites content - like the way this blog does. Also, I’d like to see the ability to view other user’s profiles, and perhaps add communication. This would show the site’s social element further.

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