sodahead is DOA : SodaHead News: New Direction

[Fay Dickson-- AKA doofs]

We are announcing today that, effective immediately, SodaHead.com will no longer support user login, poll creation, commenting and messaging. We will, however, continue to support users’ ability to vote on editor-created polls. We did not arrive at this decision lightly. We launched SodaHead in 2006 on the premise of connecting people through their opinions and passions. Over the past 9 years, we believe we’ve accomplished just that. But, along the way, something else happened: we discovered tremendous interest from other content creators and publishers who wanted to use the same polling technology that powers SodaHead.com for their sites. Since then, many of those content sites, ones like ABC News, ESPN, FoxNews, Los Angeles Times, and Warner Bros., have in fact started using our polling technology. Those sites recognize the positive impact that polling has on their readers’ engagement. Given a limited number of resources, both financial, human and otherwise, we had to evaluate how effectively we could serve SodaHead.com as a community polling site while simultaneously addressing the needs of online publishers, where our polling solution is met with an incredibly strong market-fit. We ultimately resolved that we cannot do both to ensure our long-term viability, SodaHead needs to focus on furthering its position as a market-leader in distributed polling solutions for online content creators. Our decision adheres to the maxim of: do what you do best and link to the rest. We recognize that our comparative advantage lies in building awesome polling solutions for publishers. With that comes the difficult yet necessary decision to remove user log-in access to SodaHead.com. Again, this is made effectively immediately. Please connect with us on our Facebook page to keep in touch with your friends and continue to express your opinions on topical issues. We greatly your lively participation in our community of thoughtful, concerned citizens from around the world. All the best, Team SodaHead

[Caterina Platt]

I climbed on a website ranking site to see what I could see about SH.  Why the sudden shift?  Well, it looks like the site views and activity were plummeting.  Take a look at this:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sodahead.com

Also, if you scroll down, you'll note SH was also quite popular in India.  Wow.  That sure answers a lot of questions, doesn't it? 

My guess?  The sock account issue was so out of hand that the credibility of  results on any legitimate issue polled on SH couldn't be trusted.

Nevertheless, without the regulars, the site traffic is going to be in the dumpster without a cutting edge Google Ad Word campaign of sorts. 

Discussion topics like your's were well worth the time and bandwidth.  Thought provoking and fresh.  I will miss that, but I won't miss the ignorant, abusive libs. 

I wonder, do we have any enterprising IT folks within our midst that could create their own? 

[Fay Dickson-- AKA doofs]

[e-mail] [sneg]          [e-mail]     J. L. has a son who is IT, and is trying to set one up with a format more like soda, You didn't hear that, cause I didn't tell! LOL!        The first link is done by a da'd sodahead. I dropped out this morning because Nobody orders me to be friends with someone I despise.   I had to kick Simpatti    out of group , well, technically,she left on  her on, and I blocked her so she couldn't get back in------. The one of 3 rules in BttB was if someone wanted membership They had to approach me. Simpat  posted a plea in group forum begging the gang to support her desire to have Dru Dixon admitted. One of the Worst lib/progs on site. She begged publicly , I chewed her publicly . She left angry. Too bad, so sad ! George Ordered me to apologize to her and befriend her Bulldookie!

[SpaceInvader]

this is so pathetic..thank goodness for CAC

[Fay Dickson-- AKA doofs]

 Hi love ! How is your lady ? It seems I have been very neglectful in asking .And, how are you ?

[SpaceInvader]

she just went throught 2 rounds of dialysis; and is back home after a 4 day stay in the hospital..she is in better spirits; and she has been home 6 months this 17th

me? I am getting by and just got a clean bill of health from the doctor; 62 and still kicking!!

It was terrible about SH...I guess money makes the world go round....

but it is so good to hear from you dear!!

[Fay Dickson-- AKA doofs]

Please keep in touch ! My e-mail is [e-mail] I'm happy to hear she is so much better! Her spirit counts for so much !