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oSkope Provides More Ways to Shop at Amazon

October 5, 2008 by Rene

TLP showed you shopping for undies with coverpop and now it is time to show off oSkope. oSkope is a Flash based shopping tool. I’ve used it for Amazon, but they do offer other portals as well. oSkope is described as “visual search” and is a free online service developed by oSkope media gmbh in Zurich and Berlin.

Begin by picking your shopping destination. Mine was Amazon. As oSkope queries Amazon, it adds more options on the screen.

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Eventually, I chose Amazon, Apparel, Women, Intimates, and then Bras. I added searches for my favorite brands.

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Sadly, oSkope doesn’t let you bookmark your searches and share the URLs, but you can drag various pieces into a folder and then mail the folder to your friends. I’ve done just that and you can get started www.oskope.com. This is a fun way to shop.

Coverpop: Shopping for Undies at Amazon

October 1, 2008 by Rene

Jim Bumgardner of krazydad.com may be one of the greatest students of Flash development I’ve come across. Jim builds internet music boxes, mosaics, and dynamic charts. He also created his “coverpop” shopping widget. Using various web services from Amazon, Jim builds a mosaic of hundreds of items. Each small photo can be clicked and a larger picture of the product zooms into focus along with a description and a link to purchase the item at Amazon. Jim keeps these creations at another site: coverpop. Here is a snapshot of his coverpop for Amazon’s intimate apparel.