MasterWish has been my labor of love for the past 6 months. The site – create by Zachary Tirrell, Jon Emmons, and myself – was opened to the public (in beta mode) in the middle of September.
Over the past month, we’ve been pretty excited about the whole Web 2.0 craze. The initial release was fairly solid but it lacked a few key elements to make it a 2.0 application. The three of us have wanted to bring MasterWish fully into the Web 2.0 world, so with a great deal of planning and even more coding, I am comfortable to say that MasterWish is now a fairly solid Web 2.0 application.
MasterWish has:
- Folksonomy Features (tagging)
- Easy item adds via a Favelet
- Ajax for quick and easy assignments of items to lists, buddies to groups, buddies to your buddy list, copying items from other people, etc.
- Buddies/Contacts
- Group-Level access to Categorized Wish Lists
- Fine-grained access control on your user information (so you can distribute information to people on a case by case basis). Here are some things you can distribute to other users:
- Real Name
- Address
- Many clothing sizes (shirt, bra, inseam, ring, head, etc)
- Color Preference
- etc.
Currently we are working on a very sweet feature to allow for collaborative lists. This will make wedding registries a LOT easier and my office at Plymouth State (which currently uses MasterWish for book orders) will be able to create an office wishlist and allow multiple users to contribute.
Christmas is coming around the corner, so if you haven’t checked it out for your wishlist needs, you should do so. You definately won’t regret it…and your family will thank you for it!
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7 responses to “MasterWish Enters the Web 2.0 World”
[…] Casey over at MaisonBisson has developed a sweet WordPress plugin called bstat. I’ve been using it since I installed WordPress as my blog. Well, one thing that is missing from the plugin that I decided I wanted was a search cloud (like a tag cloud, only for incoming searches)… I recently created a tag cloud on MasterWish so decided to use that. Here’s the function: […]
[…] About Time! According to CNet, Amazon is heading down the road of tagging. This is great news in my book. I’m a follower of the Web 2.0 movement and have really been turned onto the idea of folksonomy (tagging) by products like Flickr and thus have recently brought MasterWish on board with tagging. […]
[…] AJAX is great. DOM manipulation is sexy if done with tact. I’m fairly new to the AJAX world having only developed with with it since July. MasterWish was my guinea pig and continues to be my playground for all things Web 2.0. Luckily, my manager Ken is pumped up about this whole Web 2.0/AJAX thing which has allowed me to experiment with my projects at work as well and PSU should expect to see some sweet apps roll out over the next year! […]
[…] AJAX is great. DOM manipulation is sexy if done with tact. I’m fairly new to the AJAX world having only developed with with it since July. MasterWish was my guinea pig and continues to be my playground for all things Web 2.0. Luckily, my manager Ken is pumped up about this whole Web 2.0/AJAX thing which has allowed me to experiment with my projects at work as well and PSU should expect to see some sweet apps roll out over the next year! […]
[…] MasterWish, my labor of love (created with my friends Zach Tirrell and Jon Emmons) is my playground for Ajax and Web 2.0 experiments. […]
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