WatchedItemEndingSoon » watched item http://watcheditemendingsoon.com The democratization of e-commerce Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Etsy API and CraftCult App are Sweet! http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/2009/08/01/the-etsy-api-and-craftcult-app-are-sweet/ http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/2009/08/01/the-etsy-api-and-craftcult-app-are-sweet/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:01:01 +0000 estreet http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/?p=983 I just used the Etsy API to run some product searches. It was very, very easy.

The Etsy Developers need to add a few more sort parameters to the keyword and tag search, like number bought and number of favorers (yes, that’s a word). But I like it. I really like it!

Here’s a nice looking Etsy application called Craft Cult.

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Etsy offers a nice community feature that is missing on eBay. Etsy shows sellers who is has marked their shop as a favorite. CraftCult.com runs a cron to show the history of new favorers. Cool!

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Etsy also shows the Etsy user names who “heart” an item for sale. Love it! I don’t know why eBay doesn’t utilize their watch list to build their community like Etsy.

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My eBay app, WatchedItem, shows the number of watchers of an eBay item. Watchers are anonymous on eBay.

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Watched Item shows the top 500 most popular items on eBay. It’s a good way to find the most attention grabbing items on eBay.

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]]> http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/2009/08/01/the-etsy-api-and-craftcult-app-are-sweet/feed/ 0 What's new on WatchedItem.com http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/2009/04/28/whats-new-on-watcheditemcom/ http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/2009/04/28/whats-new-on-watcheditemcom/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:21:12 +0000 estreet http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/?p=734 We’ve settled into a 2 week release schedule for WatchedItem.com. That’s a good because I tend to stuff more and more features in until the release gets too big.

This is what’s getting released this month:
1. Hover images on the search page. Can you believe eBay charges sellers for enlarged pictures?
2. Sort a seller’s items by watchers on the search page.
3. Product Gallery Banner shows items sorted by watchers.
4. Better logs and an alert system to tell me if something is wrong with the banners.
5. A FAQ page.
6. Better landing page from the watcher counter.
7. Better landing page for search engine traffic.

…and a ton of other little things.
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Oh, yeah, I added a cool “tweet this” button because I’m a Twitterhead now. twitter.com/eBayWatchedItem

]]> http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/2009/04/28/whats-new-on-watcheditemcom/feed/ 0 Our new server is sooooo fast http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/2009/01/19/our-new-server-is-sooooo-fast/ http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/2009/01/19/our-new-server-is-sooooo-fast/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:34:55 +0000 estreet http://watcheditemendingsoon.com/?p=648 We moved to a new virtual private server this weekend. Banners are generating in a fraction of the time they took on the old shared server. Check it out!

www.WatchedItem.com

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