Kaboodle and Shopping.com team on social shopping destination

[mandy]

Kaboodle, a free online service that simplifies collecting, organizing and sharing information on the web, and Shopping.com, the pioneer in online comparison shopping, today announced an agreement to integrate the world's largest global product catalog into Kaboodle so consumers can quickly access product information as they shop across the web.

The agreement will give Kaboodle users access to millions of products from thousands of merchants and all the related information needed to make a fast, easy and trustworthy purchase decision including: price, brand, user reviews and professional buying guides. Shopping.com's merchants will receive incremental traffic from Kaboodle's active user base, and Kaboodle also will earn a share of revenue generated from online sales originating from Kaboodle pages...

Items listed in Kaboodle pages will be matched against Shopping.com's global product catalog, and relevant price ranges will be displayed alongside individual Kaboodle items. Clicking the pricing information will take users to a more detailed page of pricing comparisons, retailers and ratings so that they can make informed purchasing decisions...

full press release: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060829/sftu067.html?.v=65

A related article:

Kaboodle, a "social sharing" site that allows users to collect and organize links to favorite Web sites, pictures of their own collections, and other information, has upgraded its service to make it easier for users -- and ultimately marketers -- to share that information with others.

New views, integrated Shopping.com listings, enhanced group creation and back-end improvements mark the largest upgrade to the service since it launched in February, according to Manish Chandra, founder and CEO of Kaboodle.

Users add information to their collection by visiting any Web page and clicking on the "Add to Kaboodle" link in their favorites. Kaboodle's "extraction engine" collects data from the page, and condenses it into an entry in the user's Kaboodle page. Users can edit the collected data, add tags, and assign it to a category. They can also upload photos themselves, and add relevant data to create an entry...

full article: http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623286

[mandy]

An update on Kaboodle

With traffic growing rapidly, Kaboodle has come up with an easier way for consumers to add items they find on other web sites to Kaboodle.com. The site also recently launched a new program that gives retailers and branded manufacturers new ways to reach Kaboodlers, and is looking into ways to better integrate with online merchants.

Registered Kaboodle.com users—550,000 at last count—add products from other web sites to compare, rate and discuss on Kaboodle.com. Users also can create a list of items they are considering purchasing and ask others for their opinions and upload photos of potential purchases. When someone clicks on a product at Kaboodle, the link takes the shopper to the site of the retailer or manufacturer where they can make a purchase...

full article: http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=26715