Yesterday I was contacted via Twitter to join a new website (well, new to me anyway) called WishPot. It’s a wishlist management website similar to the wishlist at Amazon and other online retailers. The main difference is that it is separate from the retailers and combines the wishlist features with attractive shopping features like reviews, price comparisons at competing retailers, and alerts on sales and

discounts.

I created an account (My Account) and it automatically imported my old Amazon wishlist (Amazon’s imported list). They offer a great bookmarklet to let you add items to a wishlist from anywhere on the web. Since I was asked to be a "Gadget Expert", I used the bookmarklet to add some of my favorite gadgets to my Recommendation list with surprising success. Some of my recommendation are rather obscure but it did a very good job with them.

So far I’m impressed. I’m going to start hosting my wishlist there. It’s a bit late to start creating wishlists for Christmas, but it should work well for birthdays and such. Maybe I can convince some relatives to start using it and make all our lives alot easier.  They also offer an intriguing mobile service where you can send them a picture or ISBN/UPC number of an item, and they’ll send you back prices & reviews.  I’ll probably try that a bit and see how well it works, look for a future post here about the details. [tag:web2.0][tag:wishpot][tag:wishlist]

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