Lordy’s Project
5:33 pm on the 3rd of December, 2005Lordy, my brother and regular foolfillment commenter has been working on a fantastic idea, I don’t want to steal his thunder so will give him an opportunity to explain it in the comments, but first I will say that I can’t wait for the next iteration and am very excited about it - I can see it being made open for general use on the interwebnetthing, it is potentially a very popular project.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:57 pm on the 5th of December, 2005
I’ll agree.
(tho its popularity re general use will depend on how typical a family we are)
December 6th, 2005 at 1:08 pm on the 6th of December, 2005
Well, I was away at the weekend. Sorry for leaving the post hanging on like that.
Now that you bigged it up so much, it’ll sound fairly rubbish but…
Since we have a large family, every year at Christmas, we make a Christmas list. I don’t think most people do this, but we do. It’s to give ideas of what we want for Christmas. We all have partners now, though, and so having twelve lists on the go was getting impractical - you picked what you wanted to buy for people, then phone everyone and check they weren’t buying it. As a result, it took forever, and everyone knew what everyone was getting, which kind of spoils things a bit.
I decided to do a website which would administer the lists. So with my new website, you can log on, create a list, then add everything you want to it. Once someone else has added a list, you can view their list, choose what you’re buying them, and mark it as bought - effectively bagging it. It takes it off the list, effectively, so nobody else would see it, and conceivably even know it had been on the list. The owner of the list, however, would still see the whole list, without knowing what had been bought.
It’s a fairly simple, but useful site, I think. There are various other features, where you can leave comments which everyone but the list owner can see, so you can buy certain parts of the item, or suggest buying something between you.
You could have stolen my thunder, Stuart. I bet you could have explained it better….
I imagine next Christmas it could be up for open access, though I don’t know how people find out about it. Already there are three different families using it, and only see lists for people in their families.
I’m quite pleased with it. Lots of improvements to be made still though…..
December 6th, 2005 at 9:34 pm on the 6th of December, 2005
I couldn;t put t better, I tried in a draft post but you put it much more succinctly.
I’d like to see jst how relevant it is to other families. That we already have two families outside of our own says something deesn’t it?
December 12th, 2005 at 4:35 pm on the 12th of December, 2005
well, if it was the sort of site that other people would use, it would be an advertisers dream. If you could set it up so that as people clicked on DVD’s to bag them, they automatically got offered a link to HMV’s or amazon’s site to buy said dvd, or similar, that is. If it was a site people used, that is.
December 13th, 2005 at 9:09 pm on the 13th of December, 2005
well, I’ve had a few people who think they would use it. And, yes, it would work perfectly with google ads
December 15th, 2005 at 9:12 am on the 15th of December, 2005
You’ve met people who would use it, eh? It’s a funny old game. I must admit I’ve had a few weeks off it. I’ve been too busy buying Christmas presents…
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