For MyPickList, without centralization and aggregation, I don’t really see the value in it for readers. A single person’s list means nothing to me…

Thanks for the review Mike.

Indeed, thanks for the gifttagging review. I think gifttagging has a lot to offer in simplicity and usability.

Massive product spam forthcoming from MyPickList:

“1. Creating a buddy list to email your picklist. An email will also go out to your buddy list anytime you add a new product to your pick list. This will ensure your network of freinds won’t miss any of your recommendations.”

I am noting this poor spam strategy to encourage MyPickList to change their practices before launching and provoking the ire of the masses.

Best of luck guys!

I disagree about mypicklist The revenue share isn’t there yet. Until that occurs, the incentive to use this service is highly limited. And with gifttagging, why not just use Amazon, if the only place that is directly affiliated is Amazon.

Gifttagging alows you to add anything from any website. Amazon is for Amazon gifts only!

This falls into CNET UK’s definition of web 2.0 (the bottom bit):
http://digitalliving.cnet.co.u.....108,00.htm

Thanks for the heads up on gifttagging. Site’s a little buggy, it crashes firefox when using the ‘add gift’ bookmarklet. Also, did not import my amazon list entirely. That will all inprove I’m sure, just glad to be able to add stuff fromoutside of amazon..

Ashish - I think you are missing the point; people will use Wishlist for precisely the reason that it is not an aggregated list of anonymous recommendations but rather a single person’s, presumably someone that you trust. If my good friend Joe, who I know is up to date on digital photography, recommends a specific camera I might put a lot more weight on that than anonymous and possibly biased recommendations.

For another look at this see: http://mashable.com/2006/04/02.....ations-20/

Now Mike, I’m curious as to why you’d review these two sites after repeatedly ignoring my requests for a Wishbin.com review?? Same concept but were on the scene first…almost a year ago now.

One “social shopping site worth noting is http://wists.com
I have been using if for the past 6 month and it is very useful.

Chris, I’d much rather have an aggregate + the ability to find reviews from trusted friends. A bunch of lists everywhere isn’t innovative, nor is it helpful. If we’re all just looking at our friends lists anyway, what’s the value of having it on a proprietary site?

Not trying to belittle the efforts of MyPickList, I just don’ see it being helpful next time I’m trying to make a purchasing decision (just as I never found Kaboodle to be helpful).

Ashish, we are going to have an aggregate listing of all the picklists available to search from the homepage. You will be able to search by different critera including by product, location, gender, age, etc.. This feature will help peolpe read reviews on on products before they buy them thus helping to create a more impformed buyer.

Zlio launched a shopping recommendation service in december, over here, in France (groundbreaking in France? Incredible! see: http://www.zlio.com/); The problem: the lack of community feeling. First, you must have a community. Then, you trust them if they recommend something and might look into it. If not, why bother? I have had no return, met no one, gained zero euro from my list.

I think that MyPickList has some real potential to offer new sources of revenue and diversity into a market that has offered a lot so “sameness” for a while.

Some of its potential success seems to be related to the number and quality of vendors that they can partner with.

gary, we have already signed up some of the leading e-retailers including gap, amazon, saks, buy.com, macys, 1800flowers, oldnavy, eluxury, barnes & noble, itunes, bestbuy, circuit city, etc…

giftornot.com does something similar, but i guess it’s mainly for spurring ideas about gifts rather than saving lists.

There’s also grat.uito.us which I’ve been using for more than a year now. It’s basically del.icio.us for gifts.

For all everyone still trying to get a gifttagging.com account, we are running a little slow at the moment, but should be back up to speed soon.

We are up and running at full speed again!

helpingtheweb.com does something similar, but it lists stores not products. Check it out.

I think along with the stores list they should also mention the respective product list as it would be helpfull for the newbie to identify the right store having right product.