His idea is the following: providing Universal (planetary – not Universal Music) polls about any topic that people might be talking about – this goes from films, music, politics, news, etc. Once users have signed up, they can choose their top 5 artists, movies and books (for now, there will be more polls coming) and then find out which other users share the same interests. Pretty cool, huh???

Well, you might think, “OK, I’ve already seen this a milliontimes…” and you might be right. However, Glenn’s idea is to use the current popularity of social networks to make Poll the People a crucial part of any internet media which could potentially use the opinions of users. For example, an artist might want to use the Internet to poll the people about which of his new album’s tracks should become a hit single. If you take this idea further, it might go even as far as deciding who’s gonna be the next participant of Big Brother or who will get fired from the Apprentice. Possibilities are endless!

So there’s huge potential in Poll the People. Of course, being social media, it’s free, and uses money from advertising (for now) to generate revenues. If they manage to nail the current social online trend, they could get blogging widgets, facebook apps, etc. which would surely give them a large share of the market in that specific area.

After all, when was the last time you heard about a reliable, innovative and fun online polling system such as Poll The People? I think it’s worth a try. At least keep an eye out for all those new features Glenn has promised me (and some on which i’ve had the chance of brainstorming with) as there will be more coming soon.

Go ahead and give out your top 5 at www.pollthepeople.com, mine are:

1	Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn)
why?
2	La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
why?
3	Paris Je T’Aime (Alexander Payne/ Wes Craven/ Ethan Coen/ Alfonso Cuarón/ Isabel Coixet)
why?
4	Once (John Carney)
why?
5	300 (Zack Snyder)
why?

(Number provided by the NMA Magazine, issue 20.03.2008).
It seems that the ever-growing social network Facebook has seen a slight decrease of interest in the first quarter of 2008, at least that is was statistics reveal: from December 2007 to February 2008, Facebook has experienced a fall from 8.9 million unique users to 8.3 million in the UK, that’s a considerable drop of 600,000 users in just 3 months!

Other popular social networks such as Myspace aren’t doing well either. Claiming to be the World’s largest social network, Myspace, with 110 million users, has been experiencing a downslope trends, with only 5 million unique users in February 2008 for the UK.

On the other hand, Bebo (bought by AOL last week for £417 million) is on the rise, jumping 13% to 4.6 million. Some say the “dramatic rise” of Facebook, which was once planned to be the social getaway to the web, is now over.

Over these still quite recent numbers, one is to wonder why such a popular social network would suddenly lose popularity – Is it because of the fuss that is being made around the portal, the advertising and privacy issues Mark Zuckerberg has experienced or even the ever-growing complexity of the actual Facebook interface? The Facebook people should perhaps start to re-assess their marketing goals in an attempt to reverse the alarming statistics they are getting for this new year – or it might just be the beginning of the end for Facebook. Question is, who will be the next online Giant?