Wishlisting Blog

While we’ve been working on getting the features necessary for launch ready, I’ve been putting in minor enhancements and fixes based on my own personal use of the site, as well as feedback from our beta testers. Just as a quick summary:

1. You can now just hit the “enter key” in Internet Explorer to login. No need to click the button anymore (unless you want to). That one was for you, Kate.
2. There is now a feedback link at the top of the page so you can quickly and easily submit beta feedback. Providing your e-mail address is optional, and is only required if you want us to write you back. All feedback is welcome - we want to make giving it as easy as possible.
3. There were some small changes to the profile page, although expect it to get a full overhaul before launch. In particular we’ve added the ability to see people’s favorite stores (gift card ideas?), and you can see a user’s gift mailing address only if they have marked you as a friend. The privacy model we’re going with for that is the same as the model for marking stuff as “bought” off of someone’s list. If you add someone as your friend, you trust them to see your mailing address. How else can they send you gifts? Of course, like most stuff in your profile, entering that address is optional - you can put in as much or as little detail as you like.
4. More details on items. If you added something from Amazon, or you added something from another store via the browser button and matched it with an Amazon item, you can now see the Amazon description under “more item details” (that may be renamed). Sometimes Amazon puts a lot of great stuff in the description. For example, click “more item details” on the Brown Zune.
5. New window around the browser button. This changed around Christmas, but if you haven’t clicked your Wishlisting browser button in a while, give it another go. It is now a floating window that you can drag around if you want. The reason we changed it was primarily because sometimes the window would get in your way, and you couldn’t double-check the price or see other parts of the screen that you might have wanted to verify that everything is correct.

I’ll keep you all posted as things change. Feel free to send feedback via the new link!