http://ycoolthing.com/archives/151/collect-them-all One Cool Thing from Yahoo! every weekday Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:47:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/151/collect-them-all/comment-page-1#comment-1020 Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day » Blog Archive » One dimension better than a shopocircle Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:18:08 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/151/collect-them-all#comment-1020 [...] Here at Yahoo!, we have restaurant lists, movie lists, lists of tourist spots, Listerine™ for those hot after-work dates, you name it. If anything is listable, we want our users to list it so we can then turn those lists around for enormous profit AND to provide a useful service to the rest of the Internet (good recovery, Sean!). So why not the most ubiquitous list of them all — the shopping list? Oh, we’ve got those (and yes, we’ve mentioned them in passing in an earlier post). We’ve got a whole sphere full of ‘em. [...] [...] Here at Yahoo!, we have restaurant lists, movie lists, lists of tourist spots, Listerine™ for those hot after-work dates, you name it. If anything is listable, we want our users to list it so we can then turn those lists around for enormous profit AND to provide a useful service to the rest of the Internet (good recovery, Sean!). So why not the most ubiquitous list of them all — the shopping list? Oh, we’ve got those (and yes, we’ve mentioned them in passing in an earlier post). We’ve got a whole sphere full of ‘em. [...]

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