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Archive for May, 2006

Your-Wishlist.com v1.1

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

As I detail here , your-wishlist.com has gone 1.1. What’s new in this update? Well, there are some bug fixes, and some other enhancements, but the biggest news is that you can now create a wishlist before you register on the site. Try everything out, then save it if you’d like. There’s no commitment necessary, people!

Make a wishlist

I was a bit glib in my previous post on this subject, anyway, so I’m going to give you a little background. Your-Wishlist.com is a social wishlisting service. (God, I feel dirty just typing that.) You can create any number of wishlists (using Amazon products) quickly and easily, and even give them a special graphical theme a picture, then send them out to your friends. These wishlists can be practical (“Stuff I’d really like for graduation!”) but they can also be fun, and off-the-wall, like Jack Bauer’s Terrorist Fighting Wishlist (for those of you who watch 24.) Wishlists can be tagged, and wishlists and their individual items commented upon. You can even tell a story with wishlists, and keep track of your favorites via RSS feeds.

A bunch of similar sites to your-wishlist.com have launched around the same time, so the only way I’m going to become the most popular is through lots of feedback with the community, and quick feature additions. So if you’re interested at all in this idea, and how it can be improved, let me know!

Your-Wishlist.com Launches

Friday, May 5th, 2006

After a grueling two weeks of work, your-wishlist.com has launched. Your-Wishlist.com uses the Amazon API to grab product data, and lets members organize these products, rate them, comment on them, and share their wishlists with others.

Using AJAX to minimize the hassle of adding products to wishlists, your-wishlist.com is fully “Web 2.0” aware, but does not yet incorporate the Web 2.1 blink, or a fully Web 2.0 compliant name; this is not likely to change, although other feature upgrades are already in development.