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New social shopping network: ShoppingWords.com

By Pranav Chavda ⋅ June 19, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

On the 18th of June, which is today to most readers of this blog, a new social shopping network has been announced - Shoppingwords.com.

Don’t mind the overly dramatic introduction to this - the shopping network isn’t all that great. Just another social shopping network with a slightly unique approach to things in that unlike wists or thisnext, this isn’t quite a social bookmarking or comparison shopping service. it’s more like a 2.0 criaglist, a huge, free, discussion forum around ‘keywords’ related to shopping (the founders of this must be SEOs or something, hehe) that could be, by some miracles - that usually happen in social networks, turned into an actual marketplace.

For example, let’s check out the Thinkpad tablet page. 4 people with profiles want to buy it. one person already has bought the computer. and one person has changed her mind about the product. there are also two comments on the product page with people suggesting other, similar products. That means, for now atleast, this isn’t quite an online shopping aid, more of a shopping research platform that plans to use the wisdom of crowds in helping people make buying decisions.

IMO, the website could start using a better design and get rid of the google adsense clutter if they would like to be considered as a worthy application by shoppers worldwide.

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  • Scott
    I found this site searching Google news for "social shopping" and was very unimpressed. Not only is the usage very unclear, but there is no way to shop. I checked a couple product pages and there were no merchant links, only AdSense. I agree the AdSense is overdone and that's just going to hurt them. I doubt this will ever get off the ground.
  • Scott,
    I agree. shoppingwords is unimpressive at best. but it does still bring in a concept to the social shopping web that could make some sense by exploring into further, either by shoppingwords themselves or some other company. something as simple cleaning up the website design and interface should help to begin with...
  • "more of a shopping research platform that plans to use the wisdom of crowds in helping people make buying decisions"

    Is it though? I think the vision is spot on - but the implementation, as you say, just doesn't do it.
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