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Wishlistr: Web 2.0 wishlists
Wishlistr is a site launched a couple weeks ago that makes it easy to maintain and share a wishlist. It's very Web 2.0, featuring big fonts, lots of Ajax, smooth gradients, RSS feeds, bookmarklets-basically everything except an open API (though I'd be surprised if that's not on their to-do list). Wishlistr is very slick, snappy, and easy to use. It took me about a minute to get a public wishlist up and running. Speaking of Ajax, Wishlistr quite refreshingly uses Ajax very effectively and only where it's needed, and it really adds to the experience. Wishlists have their own easy-to-tell-your-mom-over-the-phone URLs (e.g. wishlistr.com/jordan), and the default theme is simple and attractive but there are 16 others to choose from. As I suggested earlier, wishlists have their own RSS feeds for more tech-savvy potential gift-givers plus a function for spamming your friends with the URL (optional, of course). Wishlistr gets points for its simplicity, but when you add an item you only three fields: name, URL, and description. You can put a price in the description field, but it would be nice to let gift-givers sort or filter items by price. However, you can rearrange items with drag-and-drop magic. Oh, and it will also import your Amazon wishlist automatically.Wishlistr is under active development, and in true Web 2.0 fashion the developers have a blog where they promise some interesting new features, including tagging, a "linkroll generator" that will let you embed your wishlist in the sidebar of your blog, and import from del.icio.us (where I currently keep my wishlist).
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Subscribe to commentsdpMay 26th 2006 7:39PM
I signed up and checked this out. It might grow into something more useful over time, but as you mention, it only stores 3 fields of info. I have gone back to the much more informative Metawishlist (www.metawishlist.com) which doesn't have as much 'ajaxy goodness', but allows for prices, tags, priorities, notes etc. You can also insert the location of an item image (e.g. book cover) which it will show in your results. It tallies the prices of your items, and comes with a great bookmarklet, RSS feed etc. And no, I have no relationship to Metawishlist, other than being a satisfied user.
KatMay 26th 2006 9:40PM
I prefer www.thethingsiwant.com - it has a bookmarklet that automatically grabs the item's info (although it doesn't always work) and also includes pictures and multiple lists (including a shopping list for gifts you want to buy for others!)
james 42May 26th 2006 9:57PM
This is all very nice, but am I the only one who has problems getting friends and family to use online wish lists? No one ever buys me anything from mine (boring old Amazon) and they are always way surprised when I buy them something from theirs. They also say something to the effect, "Oh, that is interesting, why did you think I wanted that?" Even when they added the item only a few months before. I think they are toying with me.
Is there an application to fix flaky family members? Or would it just be easier to find a new 'web enabled' family (with AJAX of course)?
Russell HeimlichMay 30th 2006 6:24PM
Gifttagging.com is a lot of fun. Pretty much the same thing but it has a price field. Check out http://www.gifttagging.com/kingkool68 and buy me something from my wishlist.