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Giftag puts all your wishlists in one place

Giftag screen
If you're into stuff like most of us are, you probably have a few online wish lists. I have two Amazon wish lists, and one each at Crate and Barrel and Target left over from my wedding. When people want to buy me something, they often ask where they should look.

Giftag is one way to eliminate that problem. In stall the simple Firefox add-on and use the button added to your toolbar to add things to your list. It is very simple.

Surf over to your favorite online gadget source, pick out what you want and click the Giftag icon. You are prompted to highlight the area of the item you want. A section at the bottom of the screens gives you options to add the item to different lists and include information like quantities or comments.

Once you have assembled your list you can share it with friends by entering their email addresses. With Christmas coming up this could be a very useful way to steer people in the direction of what it is you really want.

[Via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Web services

Wishlistr: Web 2.0 wishlists

WishlistrWishlistr is a site launched a couple weeks ago that makes it easy to maintain and share a wishlist. It's very Web 2.0, featuring big fonts, lots of Ajax, smooth gradients, RSS feeds, bookmarklets-basically everything except an open API (though I'd be surprised if that's not on their to-do list). Wishlistr is very slick, snappy, and easy to use. It took me about a minute to get a public wishlist up and running. Speaking of Ajax, Wishlistr quite refreshingly uses Ajax very effectively and only where it's needed, and it really adds to the experience. Wishlists have their own easy-to-tell-your-mom-over-the-phone URLs (e.g. wishlistr.com/jordan), and the default theme is simple and attractive but there are 16 others to choose from. As I suggested earlier, wishlists have their own RSS feeds for more tech-savvy potential gift-givers plus a function for spamming your friends with the URL (optional, of course). Wishlistr gets points for its simplicity, but when you add an item you only three fields: name, URL, and description. You can put a price in the description field, but it would be nice to let gift-givers sort or filter items by price. However, you can rearrange items with drag-and-drop magic. Oh, and it will also import your Amazon wishlist automatically.

Wishlistr is under active development, and in true Web 2.0 fashion the developers have a blog where they promise some interesting new features, including tagging, a "linkroll generator" that will let you embed your wishlist in the sidebar of your blog, and import from del.icio.us (where I currently keep my wishlist).

Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, E-mail, Web services, Google

Engadget asks: How would you change Gmail?

gmail logoOn Friday Engadget asked readers what features they'd like to see added to Gmail, and the response was phenomenal. They got hundreds of suggestions ranging from exporting contacts to hierarchical folders/labels and, of course, "How about a delete button??" Some of them are really out there, and others are fairly common sense, and I'm sure some of them will wind up in Gmail sooner rather than later.

What features would you like to see in Gmail?

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