Which is your favorite flavor? Which color should we make next? Which team is going to take the title?

If you’ve ever posted a question like this to Twitter, you’re going to love the new service from Wayin. It’s called TwitPolls and it’s a simple way to count up votes via Twitter.

The secret is in the hashtag. Each possible answer gets a hashtag of its own (which means you’re limited on the number of choices). When someone replies using one of the tags, it’s automatically added to a traditional poll chart.

Here’s an example page:

Tom Jessiman, CEO of Wayin said in a press release,

On Facebook, you follow a brand because you like it, but do you follow companies you like on LinkedIn? The B2B social network sure hopes so and they’re working to make those follow connections more meaningful.

This week, LinkedIn began rolling out two new products for marketers. The first is called Targeted Updates. This is the ability to send updates to only a specific portion of your follower list. New product announcements to buyers, software updates to users, job announcements to college grads who don’t already work for your company, etc.

To go along with this, they’ve launching Follower Statistics, a self-service look at who is sharing and engaging with your content.

Right now, these services are only available to the chose few, (Sound familiar?) but soon (?) they’ll be rolled out to the masses.

OK, I admit it. I must look like a freakin’ hypocrite when it comes to Google+. I have complained that they are forcing it down our throats yet now, at this very moment, I am about to tell you about updates to the service.

For clarification, updates to the product are fine and need to be shared as such. Google forcing Google+ on everyone through every service at every chance is the trouble spot. I suspect that won’t help much but at least I said it.

So on to the Google+ updates. First, in the post on the Google blog there is mention of 170 million people having “upgraded’ to Google+. Not exactly sure what that means but most will only see the number and assume that Google+ is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. Google is also standing by its “simpler and more beautiful Google” mantra as well, which is their prerogative. But on to the improvements. Take a look here.