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Usability: eCommerce Wishlists

Wishlists are becoming increasingly popular on ecommerce Web sites. This is due in great deal to the fact that we like to be able to personalize our online shopping experiences. Plus, what happens when you see something you like, but can’t buy right now? With ecommerce wishlists, it is possible to save something you like for later purchasing without having to look all over the Web site to find it again.

As usual, Amazon.com manages to steal the show with its awesome wishlist capability. As you can see below, Amazon offers a variety of different list options in addition to the generically named “wishlist.” (more…)

C++ Ajax Frameworks

  • Wt : Wt (pronounce wit-ty), is a C++ library to develop web applications. The API is widget-centric, and inspired by existing C++ Graphical User Interface APIs. To the developer, it offers complete abstraction of any web-specific implementation details.

Coldfusion Ajax Frameworks (more…)

While large scale social sites like Flickr, Digg, Youtube and Myspace have predominated the web-o-sphere over the past few years there still is a need for narrow content verticals in this arena. This list will give you links to 40 open source resources to get you started building your own social bookmarking, networking, filesharing or search application. The following is a list of what I consider the be the best open source social software that I’ve found over the past year.

Please let me know through email or a comment if you know of any other great social bookmarking, network, filesharing or search applications, and I’ll be glad to post them. Also special thanks to all of the folks who produced all of this great free software. All descriptions below are taken from the developers of the software. (more…)