Column: Starting a Social Network

Have you ever thought about starting your own social network? It's a great way to connect with people with similar interests or with potential customers.

Also, with the group features on sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, you can test whether there is any demand for your idea for free!

I wrote a column in the Journal recently explaining how to get started. Check it out: Start your own social network site.

If We Can You Can

I was honoured to be shortlisted for the If We Can You Can Challenge 2009! I was invited to pitch wishli.st to a panel of judges and answer their questions.

Unfortunately I wasn't selected as a finalist but we've got a few friends among the finalists so if you have a moment to email in your votes please consider the following:

Emma Reilly - iYosh
Mark Easby - Better Brand Agency
Rob Earnshaw - The Casting Website

Good luck guys!

wishli.st on BBC Radio Newcastle!

Yesterday wishli.st got a mention on BBC Radio Newcastle! They picked up on the story about us in the Journal and called up to find out more information. The clip is available here for the next 6 days:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001lqgj
The interview can be found at 48:00.

wishli.st nominated in the Open Web Awards!

wishli.st has been nominated in the 'Social Shopping' category of the Open Web Awards! Many thanks to everyone who nominated us - we're thrilled to be through to the next round!

Now we need your support again as we push for the next stage of the competition. If you could vote for us every day between now and midnight on the 30th November we'd be extremely grateful indeed!

Thanks to Counterknowledge.com for endorsing us and thanks to all of you for your continued support. It means a lot to us.

More Press Coverage!

The Journal, one of our regional newspapers up here in the North East (of England), is running a piece about wishli.st today in the Technology News section!

The article describes wishli.st as "helping punters beat the credit crunch this Christmas" and mentions the seed round of investment we closed back in March.

Click here to read the article online.

Thanks to Lewis at Codeworks and Andrew at the Journal!

Nominate wishli.st in The Open Web Awards

We'd be really grateful if you could take a second to nominate wishli.st in the 'Social Shopping' category of the Open Web Awards. It's really easy and you can do it using the handy widget below. You get a bonus point if you persuade a couple of friends to vote too. Many thanks!

wishli.st relaunches!

After months of hard work the new version of wishli.st is now launched and ready for you to try! wishli.st now has a completely new look and feel and we've completely re-written all the code behind the scenes! There are a couple of new features to check out including product search and OpenID authentication and we've also added thousands more products to the catalogue.

We hope you enjoy using the new site and we'd love to hear what you think of it - please feel free to drop us a line: support@wishli.st.

Thinking Digital 2008

We're going along to Thinking Digital this year in our home city of Newcastle. We're really excited to have an event like this in our area so thanks to all at Codeworks who have helped put this together and thanks too to TechCrunch for the ticket! If you're going to be there then drop us an email (dhs@wishli.st) and we can meet up...