Poll Everywhere, which I covered in May, recently launched a number of new features, and fixed some of the issues I had with the service initially.

Poll Everywhere is a hosted service for mobile voting - users can vote using SMS, but now they can also vote directly on their iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile or other web enabled phone.

They've also removed monthly maximums on the number of votes, which is great. Their pricing plans are now much simpler - what size of audience do you expect to vote. (Poll Everywhere is also free for Title 1 public schools who have no made Adequate Yearly Progress, which is nice to see.)

If you haven't checked out Poll Everywhere, they have a free trial version available for up to 30 responses per poll. Here's a sample poll that I created for this article to give you an idea of what it looks like and how it works:

Poll Everywhere is a hosted SMS voting system for US cellular phone customers. Everyone from a small blogger to a large corporation can sign up for an account and have Poll Everywhere host SMS vote contests. Pricing ranges from free to $370 per month, depending on the number of votes being cast and the number of votes allowed per month. I've created a sample poll and embedded it into my blog below.

This service is nearly identical to LiveVote.ca, which I've covered before on RIApedia. However, LiveVote only works in Canada, and Poll Everywhere only works for US cell phone customers.

The voting display is handled using Flex and the Flex charting components.