WISHBOX.COM
On NPR - Noah speaks with Casey Weiss,
Chairman of Generation Y at wishbox.com.
The website is a new gift registry designed for children
and teenagers. The idea was to give young people an
opportunity to register for gifts so money isn't wasted
on unwanted presents. Casey Weiss's father and friends
started the site, and hired her as a consultant. They
wanted her expertise as a young person. Wishbox-dot-com
has now broadened beyond a sole focus on material gifts.
The site encourages people to be creative, by wishing
for things like world peace. Click
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Also...
e-Holiday
countdown
OCT. 27, 1999
I hate the idea of acknowledging the
impending holiday season as much as you do, but as far
as I can tell it’s been Christmas for months now. At
least as far as the bevy of e-merchants trying to
attract our money and attention are concerned.
We’ve been getting flacked by the
e-commerce crowd for a while, and that means you’re
about to start getting deluged, too. Watch for endless
variations on computer themed Christmas trees. It’s
not enough that everyone wants to cash in on the dot com
revolution. Now they want to attach a Santa Claus to it,
too.
So, even though it’s not yet
Halloween, today we begin a series of reports called
E-Holiday Countdown. In this episode, we look at a
business we ran across at Internet World last month.
It’s called I’veBeenGood.com,
and it’s a gift registry for families. No more
guessing what kind of perfume Aunt Belinda wants. Since
the business model wasn’t readily apparent for this
one, we thought it well-embodied all the other dot coms
out there — and was a good way to kick off the season.
(Another, similar business crossed our desks last week, Wishbox.com.
It wouldn’t be the Web at the end of the millennium if
there weren’t myriad versions on a theme.
It’ll take till after the holidays
to see who succeeds in this e-commerce game. Until then,
play along with us. Have something you want us to test
or check out online? Tell us what you want us to look at
and we will.
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