About Us

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Wists was created for 2 simple purposes:

1. To make finding well designed, interesting or unusual products and collectibles both simple and fun.

2. To make publishing or sharing lists of recommendations and wishlists easier and more appealing than maintaining a weblog and not tied to one particular store.

Using Wists is not like going to Walmart […]

Vanity Fair Link

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

This Month’s Vanity Fair has an interesting interview with Treehugger founder, Graham Hill. Graham lists Wists as one of his favorite sites.
Thanks Graham!

Wists wins Web 2.0 Award in retail category

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Web 2.0 Awards

Wists Maintenance

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Wists will be down for hardware upgrades for 10 - 20 minutes at 4:15 EST on Friday17 March 2006 and from 1am - 3am in the morning on Sunday 19th March

Gawker Maps powered by Wists

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Gawker Maps has launched with maps showing pictures of celebrity sightings for its ‘Stalker’ feature.
Gawker Maps uses Wists as its map blogging application, both to add items and publish maps.
Check it out here.

Wists Maps

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Wists maps is being released early, to be used by Gawker media, originally being part of Wists rev 2 which we’re busy working on.

What is wists maps?
When you click on add to wists and are in the edit screen before you submit your new item, there is a checkbox at the bottom, marked ‘Map this’. […]

The Wistslist 2005 - the top 100 lists

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

The Wistslist 2005 is our first annual list of lists. Enjoy!

Looking for help with development

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

If any budding developers want to help me, part time on making wists better and better, shoot me an email.
David

Shopping blog roundup

Monday, November 28th, 2005

A good round up of all the shopping blogs is in today’s Baltimore Sun:

“Crib Candy: Overflowing with eye-catching items for the home, this site features tons of adventurous products for adventurous people.”

Perhaps blogs to do with shopping needs a word?

Blog Shops - Blops?

Got time and money to spend? Click here - baltimoresun.com

maintenance finished

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Wists server maintenance is completed.

Please report any problems or bugs by clicking on the email link at the top of the page.

Thanks

Wists on Attack Of The Show

Friday, June 17th, 2005

Sarah Lane picked Wists as a ‘Damn Good Website’ to feature on attack of the show.
The bad news is that we were having server problems! Oops. We’re currently upgrading both the code and backend.

Video here

Wists Bitty Browser

Monday, June 13th, 2005

Bitty Browser has Wists built in by default, choosing either a username or tag as a default:

Wists Bitty BrowserOpen “Wists Bitty Browser” in a new windowAbout Bitty BrowserAbout Turnstyle

Technorati tags

Friday, June 10th, 2005

‘rel=tag’ instructions have been added to posts to blogs, so that Wists tags will appear within Technorati.