Wishpot (suggested by Colm Brophy) aims to "makes it easy for you to shop anywhere, keep all your finds in one place, connect with friends, and discover the hottest deals." Wishpot has teamed up with Shopping.com to offer price comparison across a range of retailers. It also has price alerts, a now common way for shopping websites to alert their users when an item goes on sale or reaches a target price.
Sherry Main suggested Kaboodle. As we reported back in August 2007, Kaboodle was acquired for $30M+ by Hearst. We'd reviewed the site before, noting that it had a clean UI and a comprehensive feature set. Users can collect shopping items from many sites using the Kaboodle toolbar. The items can then be organized into collections, reviewed and shared with other users.
wishli.st is a British site "where users can make a list of the presents they would like and share it with friends and family who can then buy items from the list or contribute money towards particular items." An example wishlist is that of founder David Haywood Smith.
FriendShopper claims to be "the first real time social shopping application online, where users can shop any store across the web and communicate about those products effectively and easily." It was recently featured on AltSearchEngines, where it was explained that users need to install a "bookmarklet" - a button that sits in their browser. From there users can bookmark items and share them with their friends. Items can be added into a chat window too.
Ashutosh Nilkanth pointed out Google's Froogle, which has a Shopping List page. It's a typically minimalist design, but has the advantage of a large number of reviews on popular products, ratings by presumably an even larger number of people, excellent price comparison features, and the general data thoroughness we've come to expect of Google.
These are 10 of our favorite social shopping wish lists, but we're sure to have missed some of your favorites. Please add to the list in the comments.
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It's coming up to Christmas and for many of us that means buying presents for family. If you're in this situation, "what to buy?" becomes the most pressing question in your Christmas shopping expeditions. But what if you could take a quick look at the online shopping wish lists of your loved ones - it could take the decision-making right out of your hands!