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Wists Social Shopping
Social Shopping
Gawker Media
What is Wists?
Wists is a shopping wishlist service where you can create visual list of things you want or recommend from any online store or website. It works like bookmarking a webpage, except that you get to choose a thumbnail image to associate with your bookmark.
Why is it called wists?
Because wists is a tool to create lists, specifically wishlists the name is either a contraction of wishlists or web lists.
How do I use Wists?
There are several ways you can use wists:
- 1. To find products recommended by others - Because all of the items in wists are picked by real people, a searching for something such as a ‘chair’ on wists, gives you much more interesting results than a regular shopping search engine. Try it, and see if you agree: Search for chair on wists. search for chair on Froogle.
Anything in wists can be added with one click to your own list, complete with a picture.
- 2. To collect lists of things you want or recommend all in one place - Many shopping sites have buttons that say ‘add to my wishlist’. The problem is that the wishlist only allows you to add items from that site. By signing up and installing the wists links in your browser, you
- 3. To create Wists - online shopping lists - Wists consists of visual links to things with keyword tags - by adding a title and description to a particular keyword tag you create context around a tag, to make a wists list - a wist. A list is a webpage without the wists branding with a collection of items in a specific topic that you can link to or publish on you own website. Lists can be just like any regular tag, or they can have items rearranged into a specific order, for a numbered list or have items included on a map.
Wists lists allow you to create a weblog or a portion of your weblog all about things that you like or recommend. Because publishing to wists is as simple as bookmarking a webpage, a wists powered product blog is trivially easy - just add a piece of code to your website and wists will do the rest, no complicated image uploading or installation. We use wists ourselves to create our own product blogs such as Cribcandy.
7 ways to use Wists
- 1. Search the web visually and bookmark search results.
- 2. Create wishlists, birthday lists or wedding lists with pictures of products from any store on the web.
- 3. Create thumbnail image galleries of your favorite things: books, movies cd’s, songs or photos.
- 4. Website owners, use wists to embed an updateable gallery of products or items that you recommend, within your website, matching its look and feel.
- 5. Create a personalized inbox where you can track items by user or keyword tags and add to your wists
- 6. Bloggers. Make adding images and tags to your weblog posts as easy as bookmarking a webpage.
- 7. Create communities around tags - have your friends on Wists use a particular tag, so that you can all track cool products and websites.
Wists was created for 2 simple purposes:
1. To make finding well designed, interesting or unusual products and collectibles both simple and fun.
2. To make publishing or sharing lists of recommendations and wishlists easier and more appealing than maintaining a weblog and not tied to one particular store.
Using Wists is not like going to Walmart or searching a price comparison shopping site - we try to encourage the discovery and promotion of products from small retailers and manufacturers and young designers.
- publisher-author
- Gawker Media
- License
- Free
- Money Back
- n/a
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