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What differentiates this from all the other social shopping sites out there?

Shopialize primarily focuses on sharing "post-shopping" updates quickly and frequently like micro-blogging way. Other social shopping networks primarily focus on "pre-shopping social bookmarking" and "wishlist creation" aspects. It doesn't tell if your friends or community members are really buying those items or just recommending it.

Also, I'm not trying to build another social shopping network. I'm looking more towards Twitter+FriendFeed integration. Twitter may-not provide better shopping related feature-set. Similarly, FriendFeed may not add all social-shopping services like Kaboodle, ThisNext, Kirtsy, etc., which I'm planning to add soon.

These are primary reasons. Hope this answers your question.

It's more of a communications medium or vehicle, correct?

The idea is compelling when you extend an API considering the giants of ecommerce tend to close off their reviews, recs or community posts on their sites.

We should talk more offline as I've been working on something that could mesh well with your app throughout the entire shopping experience (pre, during and post checkout).

Yes! Exactly, it's geared more towards communication aspect rather than just bookmarking aspect. Yes, API is definitely way to go, so that people can build awesome apps that I haven't even thought of yet. I'm interested to talk to you offline. Email me at aditya.kothadiya@gmail.com. Looking forward to talk to you.

i like the clean css and layout i like the simple approach to pushing data to the page. obviously i notice many Getting Real concepts well implemented here. is this a rails app?

I like the layout, too, but only after I enabled Javascript using NoScript in Firefox. My first impression was a jumble of overlapped markup over half the page. I hope you can work on progressive enhancement for low end browsers, mobile, screen readers, etc.

Thanks for the kind words! No, it's not a rails app. It's a PHP app.

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