Wishlisting Blog

A few updates were pushed out to the site yesterday:

1. “Remember me” checkbox under the login - yes, at long last. If checked, it will remember you when you come back to the site, and you won’t have to log in again. That was annoying me as much as it was annoying you.
2. Wish stats - We don’t have a lot of statistics… two, in fact. But it will help give you an idea of where we’re headed. If you click on the details of an item, for example the Apple iPhone, you’ll see what percentage of people who have/want it are male vs. female, and the average age of people who have/want it. Right now it’s plain text, but eventually we’d like to make it more graphical. The idea is that having this type of information will help you decide if a given item is a good gift for someone. John and I also hypothesized about what a guy would think if he added something to his list and noticed 95% of the people who want it are female. Would it change his opinion of it? Maybe it’s just a novelty, but we have a lot of ideas like this.

More to come…