Ideastorm, Dell’s own site for getting suggestions from their customers, has had “Popular Stories” as the title of its home page since its inception. (Check the titlebar in your browser’s window.)

That tiny dictional mistake (calling their customers’ ideas stories, if you missed it) goes to show that Dell had planned to make a ‘Digg clone’ for themselves since early on. Digg, the social news website that lets users vote on what stories get on their front page, has inspired many other startups to experiment with social voting.

Let us be the first to say: FeVote was inspired by Digg. In fact, Digg inspired us enough to set up a site to make and vote on feature requests… just for Digg! When we were dugg, one user commented that FeVote was a “digg-like site about digging features you would like to see on digg,” and that was exactly right.

Though the still-present Digg category on FeVote is probably tribute enough to Digg, here it is in writing: Thanks, Digg! May your app be the inspiration for many more great ideas.

FeVote is taking its own medicine.

What we’re doing here, is using our own product to get early suggestions from you on what to do next with FeVote. It’s a FeVote for FeVote: A suggestions website asking for suggestions!

It’ll beat relying on us to manually tally feature requests. It’ll beat good ideas somehow slipping by unnoticed, or getting deleted on the whim of a single person. It’ll save time. It’ll prioritize. It’ll put the pressure on. It’ll help decide our next move with FeVote.

Open, social suggestions for FeVote, on FeVote, by you.

Any and all suggestions are welcomed. Thank you in advance!

This is actually days-old news, since it’s been functional for over 3 days, but here it is:

You can login using your AIM or AOL account! You can login using your OpenID!

We actually got it out and live a few hours after the last post about being able to login using your Yahoo! ID.

The next natural progression should be to hook up your FeVote logins with the FeVote blog, so you can swiftly leave comments here. It’ll get done sometime, but it’s on the back burner. (Do poke us later about it!)

Next post should come in shortly after this one tonight.