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December 23, 2005Kaboodle, ListsI'm still trying to wrap my head around Kaboodle (www.kaboodle.com). Apologies to Manish for not having the time to follow-up yet. I've been hoping to pick up some bite-sized tips about what makes the service uniquely useful at the Kaboodle Blog. But it was probably the comment on John Battelle's searchblog that broke things down into the simplest terms: "The challenge with Amazon's Listmania or Yahoo! Shoposphere is that they confine you to one single web property... The power of Kaboodle is that it works with ANY site on the web. That, in and of itself, could add value, I suppose. Granted, Amazon is no slouch when it comes to the number of products, the same with Yahoo Shopping, so Kaboodlers will have to push beyond the most common/obvious products to get the full benefit of aggregation. But the thing that gets my about all of these pick lists -- Amazon, Shoposphere, Kaboodle -- is, what next? How can these lists work together to be more than the sum of their parts? In other words, a good list can be very useful, but, as far as I can tell, there has not been a lot of emphasis on value-mining the relationships between these lists. update: heh, just popped into Amazon.com, and they have the "Most Wished For Items" is on their home page, cool. ...okay, now what? related thought, possible silliness: am I the only person wondering why no comparison shopping engine has specifically gone after the bridal registry action?
Kaboodle, Lists
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