Wists Review
Lists with a Lisp? No not really. Think Flickr, but instead of one’s own photographs, using any image from the web.
Wists is used for creating visual bookmarks. Wists works like most other social bookmarking systems. Add the Wist bookmarklet to the browser toolbar and bookmark away. When the bookmarklet is pressed, Wists gathers all the images it finds on the current webpage and asks which one is to be used as part of the bookmark. Pretty Cool. Once the image is selected, users can add a Title (one is added by default), tags, and description.
How can one use Wists?
- Create a list of anything that lends itself to being labeled with an image.
- Books
- CDs
- DVDs
- Websites
- etc.
These lists can then be intergrated into one’s own website to let readers know of valuable resources, etc.
- Create wishlists. Wists allows one to create a visual wishlist of any image on the Web. It will be interesting to see if people prefer this method over site specific wishlists. The potential problem with a Wist wishlist is that it is not integrated to any ecommerce engine.
- There are many other uses which Wists lists on their site. http://wists.com/
Problems
The home page is different whether one is logged in or logged out. I understand why they have a different screen, however, I believe they could do it differently. Instead, of two different screens, it would seem feasible to just add functionality to the screen when a user is logged on. For example, a menu of member options might appear in the left nav bar, etc.
Some links do not work. I know that Wists is in beta at this time. Still, broken links do not build user confidence.
I am trying to determine if Wists is simply a toy or a tool. Will it be played with for a while and then die off once the fad wanes? Or will it become a tool that adds value to websites? To become the latter, it needs to be as robust as Flickr.
Posted by Paul Flyer on Monday, July 18th, 2005 in Social Bookmarking
Engagement Rings Says:
November 17th, 2005 at 10:07 pm
I have been experimenting with Wists. The adage “a picture is worth a 1000 words,” is true when there are just a few pictures. The conversion rate seems to decline when you are dealing with an endles stream of pictures.
booboorooboo Says:
December 13th, 2005 at 11:23 am
I love Wists! The thumbnails quickly remind me why I bookmarked a particular site, and I love how I can search other people’s public listings as well for more ideas and recommended websites. This definitely beats filling my e-mail inbox with references to websites I want to look at later. Very simple interface, user-friendly. Two thumbs up!