Linden Lab's pushing Valentine's day in Second Life pretty hard this year, particularly the commercial aspects of it. In fact, it feels like it's being pushed hard enough that it has taken on a slightly creepy and embarrassing air, rather like that guy at the Christmas party who won't shut up about the mistletoe.
Nevertheless, the Lab's implemented an open beta of product wishlists on their Web-based shopping portal, Xstreet. There doesn't seem to be much that is overtly difficult, weird or special about the implementation, though we'd question the wisdom of launching a public beta of the feature right on the verge of the heavily-promoted Valentine's day. Far better, we'd think, to let it settle a while first and get the inevitable kinks out of it before a major commercial date rolls around.
Perhaps the only awkward part is the way that Xstreet and the Wishlist site handle logins and logouts, and that somehow the whole thing seems to be bound up with Wishpot in some fashion that we've not been able to figure out yet – it could well be using Wishpot's technology.
At present, there's no support for more than one wishlist per email address, so if you have multiple accounts sharing the same email address, you've only got one wishlist for all of them.
What do you think, readers? Is this the sort of feature you feel you're likely to use?
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