popgloss has a home decor counterpart: cribcandy

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Since I discovered my link on their main page, I have been a big fan of Popgloss, not only for their great taste in blogs ;-), but for the visual appeal of the page. And more importantly for their consistent support of indie fashion designers. Yay Popgloss. Little did I know, when I stumbled upon their home decor counterpart, Cribcandy, that Cribcandy preceded Popgloss, (followed by Yokiddo which features cool baby and kid's merch), and that all three sites are backed by the Gawker online empire.

After further investigation, I learned that the 'Wists Social Shopping' blogs were created by David Galbraith who has quite an impressive background in both design and technology, as an architect and industrial designer, founding successful online startups, and co-authoring the RSS standard. In addition to promoting great design, Galbraith founded Wists 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."

I think they have done a great job.

Here are 7 ways to use Wists which you may find helpful:

1. Search the Web visually and bookmark search results.
2. Create wishlists, birthday lists or wedding lists with pictures of products from any store on the web.
3. Create thumbnail image galleries of your favorite things: books, movies cd’s, songs or photos.
4. Website owners, use wists to embed an updateable gallery of products or items that you recommend, within your website, matching its look and feel.
5. Create a personalized inbox where you can track items by user or keyword tags and add to your wists
6. Bloggers. Make adding images and tags to your weblog posts as easy as bookmarking a webpage.
7. Create communities around tags - have your friends on Wists use a particular tag, so that you can all track cool products and Websites.