i want a way to keep track of the things I want. Being the geek that I am, I did a search for wishlist applications. Amazingly enough wishlistr.com came up. Taking a brief look at it, I decided it had potential. I thought about what I wanted in my desired app. Here’s what I came up with:
publicly viewable
use clean urls
login with OpenID to edit my list
easy to use
works with any product (not just products on a single site)
i asked my followers on Twitter for recommendations. The Amazon wish list was mentioned by several people. It works very well with anything on Amazon. Supposedly It works for non-amazon items with a little extra work. Deciding that i didn’t want to do any extra work, I signed up for wishlistr.com to try it out. It met all my criteria so I created some entries for my shiny new account.
The lightweight entry of wishlistr was nice and simple. It felt familiar from the first entry i made, but couldn’t put my finger on why. Then I was visiting my friend Cassie Wallender’s website, and she has her own wish list, which is driven by delicious.com using a tag ‘wishlist’. Of course! It’s so simple! Wishlistr felt familiar because it’s similar to my magnolia.com bookmarks. I’m now using Magnolia with a tag of ‘wishlist’.
Remember to bookmark my wishlist and keep it in mind for the holidays
Video Challenge
I created my first ever video, as a response to a challenge put out by Mel Kirk on her website randommel.com. It was an interesting process. One that I think I could get used to. However, if I’m going to do more street footage, I’ll definitely require a video camera. It felt a little silly to use the iSight camera on my macbook. People were a little baffled, but that’s probably because it was raining today in seattle during filming, and my laptop is not waterproof. It’s on youtube but for convenience i’m adding it below, so you can watch it now. Enjoy!
