Chitika are trying to get involved with the rapidly growing community shopping space, by launching Shlogging.com, which is designed to help readers find the best online shopping deals and offers.
The slogan for Shlogging.com is ‘dig for deals’ so you would probably guess that it’s going to have a Digg like interface, and you wouldn’t be wrong. I really hope that someday someone will have the guts to take the Digg concept and rebuild it so that it works better rather than just copying it lock, stock and barrell.
On a sidenote, I’ve just noticed that the Granddaddy of social shopping sites, Letsbuyit.com is going to make a comeback this autumn. When Letsbuyit.com was around back in 1999 and 2000, the ‘social’ label for sites hadn’t even been coined yet.
I really hope they make it this time around. Mainly, because they I came so close to joining the company in 1999 that I took it quite personally when they went out of business!
