bunnybot blog

Amazon's word play

2008-10-01T20:47:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com now has a way to take a word, for example: halloweenand blend it into a cool list.

Cool New Amazon MP3 Widget

2008-05-15T09:24:00.000-07:00

Shopping Teams - comic

2008-03-31T23:14:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of xkcd.com

Bunny saved from science lab. Brain sometimes pops out of head.

2008-03-12T11:13:00.001-07:00

It's been a while since I posted a bunny image, and I couldn't resist this find via boingboing.net. And the source is another great site, flickr.com. And most awesome of all is the artist, Andricongirl.

When You're Down 'n Out, Don't Shop!

2008-03-03T21:45:00.000-08:00

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Stanford and the University of Pittsburgh showed volunteers either a video clip that showed grief following a tragic death or a neutral clip from a nature show. Afterward, participants had the chance to purchase an ordinary item -- a sporty water bottle. They found that people who'd watched the sad video clip offered an average of 300 percent more money for the item than those who had viewed the neutral clip.

"The key contribution our paper adds to the literature is that a high degree of self-focus can carry over to spending," says lead study author Cynthia Cryder, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University.

Courtesy of ABC News

Our new Widget - on Facebook, MySpace, Ning, etc

2008-02-28T09:28:00.000-08:00

(This is 7/10 of the actual size) - Enjoy!

Gap between the "haves" and "have-nots" narrows

2008-02-26T13:37:00.000-08:00

The NYTimes takes a look at the difference between income brackets and consumer spending. The top fifth of all income is 15 times higher than the bottom fifth, but the gap in consumption is only 4-to-1, or four times the bottom fifth of the population. How can that be?

At the "average" wage, the price of:
- a VCR fell from 365 hours in 1972 to a mere two hours today
- a cellphone dropped from 456 hours in 1984 to four hours
- a personal computer, with thousands of times the computing power of the 1984 I.B.M., declined from 435 hours to 25 hours
- a mid-size Ford sedan declined by 6 percent in the last ten years

The bottom line is increased international trade - globalization - is bringing costs down and narrowing the gap between what the rich can have, and what everyone else is getting closer to having too.

A bit of Love coming Your Way

2008-02-05T11:43:00.000-08:00

We're putting together something sweet!

Stay tuned.

"Customers are kings, queens, and executioners in 2008"

2008-01-24T14:36:00.000-08:00

According to Marketing Experiments journal, customers trust what their peers are saying about products and businesses more than ever before. Citing a study by the e-tailing group:

- 93% said they are likely to start their shopping on a web site that offers Social Navigation (a.k.a. consumer reviews/ratings).

At Bunnybot we offer three areas of traditional "social shopping":
- Customer reviews (under the Reviews tab in a product detail screen)
- A "customers who bought this item also bought" section (under the Related tab in a product detail screen)
- Listmania lists (where the product item you're looking at is a member of a customer's list)

Surprisingly, none of the bloggers or analysts consider this: the most important aspect of online social shopping for many people is the instant feedback you get from your trusted buddies while instant messaging! That's Bunnybot's special sauce!

Shopping, Sharing & Saving

2008-01-21T11:49:00.000-08:00

We have a new feature!

After you share at least a few products with your buddies, Bunnybot will send you a private message and a url in the chat stream. You can share the url with whomever you like, but you don't have to. The message will look like this:

The link "visit your list of items you've shared with others here" will bring you to your own personal page where you can see what you've shared most recently, as well as go back in time to older, shared items. You can bookmark this page and re-visit it whenever you want.

For example, here's my live, shared items page.

A funny, real-world version of social shopping and social networking

2008-01-06T13:31:00.000-08:00

Supermarket 2.0 - The best free videos are right here

We're meebo.com's shopping application!

2007-12-15T11:35:00.000-08:00

Our newest partners are the very capable folks over at meebo.com. If you have an instant messaging account you're good to go. If not you can open an account at:
AIM
Yahoo!
MSN
Google Talk/Gmail
ICQ
Jabber
or become a meebo member.

Once you have an instant messaging account you can sign in to a single service (e.g., AIM, Yahoo, MSN, etc) or sign in to meebo and add as many IM accounts as you like.

Then, once you're signed in, you'll see your buddy list.

Double-click on a buddy to start a chat session, then click on the yellow rocket ship. That opens a side panel with a list of applications. Mousing over an app shows screen shots and application descriptions, while double-clicking an app automatically invites your buddies into the app. You can do group chats as well as 1-to-1 sessions with Bunnybot's Shop 'n Share application.

To use Shop 'n Share just click product categories until you've found an item you like, or do a search. Once you've found something interesting you can click on the Share Now! button and the item will be instantly sent to your buddies. It's fast and it's fun!

Enjoy,
The Bunnybot Team

Video Demo: Hopping Around in Browse 'n Shop

2007-11-29T18:24:00.000-08:00

A 45 second demo on shopping/browsing on your own at bunnybot.

Video Demo: Shopping with Bunnybot

2007-11-29T18:15:00.000-08:00

A 60 second demo on shopping with our pal Bunnybot.

Video Demo: Shopping with an AIM, MSN, Yahoo or Google Buddy

2007-11-29T18:11:00.000-08:00

A 35 second demo on chatting and shopping with an IM buddy who is currently not a bunnybot user.

Video Demo: Shopping with a Bunnybot Buddy

2007-11-29T18:02:00.000-08:00

A 45 second demo on how two bunnybot users can have fun chatting and shopping together.

Video Demo: Registering and Instantly Accessing Your Buddies

2007-11-29T17:56:00.000-08:00

A 30 second demo on how easy it is to add your instant messaging account info (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google) so that you can instantly start IMing and shopping at bunnybot.com.

Top 10 Reasons Never to Shop Online Alone for the Holidays

2007-11-29T09:43:00.000-08:00

PR Web Newswire:
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Bunnybot.com Announces The Top 10 Reasons Never to Shop Online Alone for the Holidays

San Francisco (PRWEB) November 29, 2007 -- With more holiday shopping done online this year, it pays to have your IM buddies closer than your credit card. As you fill your browser with shopping choices, why not get buddy feedback at the same time? Bunnybot is a new shopping experience that integrates instant messaging and shopping--so you can get instant feedback from those you trust most to make the best choices. Bunnybot puts the "social" (as in real-time chat) into online "social shopping".

Here are the Top 10 Reasons Never to Shop Online Alone for the Holidays from Bunnybot.com:

1. Because it's actually fun to go holiday shopping with your friends when you're in your pajamas, propped up in bed with cushy pillows.
2. Because while shopping for your girlfriend's gift late on December 21, you need your best buddy to IM you and say, "Dude, she'll kill you if you get her that."
3. Because your tech-obsessed Uncle Bob is the only one who can help you decide which GPS system is right for dad.
4. Because after a couple of hours of online holiday shopping, your vision can start to go and you need a friend to IM you, "Those really aren't cross-country skis at a great discount, they're a pair of silver latex leggings!"
5. Because when picking out a cell phone for your Christmas list, you need your best friend Emily to remind you that, "Everyone has that in pink, you should go for the purple."
6. Because when picking out an engagement ring, who knows her taste better than her best friend from high school who now lives in Budapest?
7. Because purchases made after 1:00am should never be made alone.
8. Because despite an average 4.5-star rating for that new bestseller, only your brother can IM you to say, "That book is only a page turner if you're snowed in at the airport."
9. Because your friends know what you look good in, especially when you don't.
10. Because a second (real-time) opinion never hurt anyone.

Created by: bunnybot.com

"Bunnybot gives online shoppers the ability to load their buddy directly lists from AIM, Google, MSN, or Yahoo!, then shop and share together across all the products offered through Amazon," said Neill Kramer, Bunnybot's co-founder. "Bunnybot is the easiest way to shop and share online, in real-time, this holiday season."

New Features
Bunnybot has just released several new features, including group chat for registered users. Now you can chat 'n shop with more than one buddy at the same time. In addition, new users can quickly learn how to shop and share with five new short demo videos. All of these new features can be accessed at www.bunnybot.com.

About Bunnybot
With Bunnybot, why shop alone? Bunnybot was created to make online shopping a shared, entertaining experience. Based in California, the company was started by a small team of people with many years of experience in product design, product development and animation.

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Press Contact: Neill Kramer
Company Name: Bunnybot Inc.
Email: Email Us Here: http://www.prweb.com/emailmember.php?prid=572810

And the Winner is... Thomas Leigh

2007-11-21T16:47:00.000-08:00

Based on your votes, Thomas Leigh, an 18 year-old who created an awesome spray paint can wielding Bunnybot is the winner of our very first Bling the Bunny Contest. He said, "I just applied my own sort of style." He wins a $150 Amazon.com Gift Certificate. Congratulations!

A brief bio:
Thomas Leigh. Born 12/08/88 in Kettering, England. Now residing in San Francisco, U.S.A. Majoring in Animation at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Draws, paints, animates, and experiments with photography. Takes inspiration from graffiti, the city, and whatever music he's listening to. Enjoys comic books, stuff with zombies, and urban vinyl toys. Uses fragmented sentences in the third person to describe himself.

His website is boydoom.deviantart.com.

Vote for Your Favorite Blinged Bunny!

2007-11-16T22:10:00.000-08:00

Please click the bunnies to see a larger version, then come back and vote by scrolling down to the poll.

The winner will receive a $150 Amazon.com Gift Certificate.

Fill out my Wufoo form!

Last Day for the Blinged Bunny Contest is Tomorrow - 11.16.2007

2007-11-15T22:39:00.000-08:00

Paint-can-wielding bunny dude's got some serious psychedelic designs happenin'. And if you're "chill" you've got the "WORD".

Yo

One more day to submit your blinged bunny.

Had enough of Blinged Bunnies? Talk to Mr. 24-Carrots. He'll Set you Straight!

2007-11-11T19:58:00.001-08:00

We've got diamond-studded, Fedora wearing, Hannah Montana blinged, street-wise, and fur-lined bunnies who do their thing when they swagger with their bling!

Keep bringing it. Five more days to submit your blinged bunny.

Enough Blinged Bunnies?

2007-11-07T21:51:00.000-08:00

The "Anarchy Bling Bunny boy" says NEVER!
And Fergie is like, "Blinged Bunnies Rule!"

Keep bringing it. Nine more days to submit your blinged bunny.

More Bunnybot Bling-age!

2007-11-06T20:23:00.000-08:00

A rockin', politically-correct guitar hero (notice his "no animal testing" bag) and a Parisian-style shop-a-holic?

Keep bringing it. Ten more days to submit your blinged bunny.

More good news coming Bunnybot's way

2007-11-05T12:47:00.000-08:00

First an excellent review of bunnybot.com's innovations by Paul O'Brien. In it, Paul discusses how we've created a "comprehensive shopping vertical search engine with an open network that allows users to chat through all of the major IM platforms" and "a unique search experience which, in hindsight, is an obvious enhancement." What Paul really finds intriguing is that, "like Meebo, you could simply use the messenger window as an integrated chat platform; more than Meebo, Bunnybot gives you the single chat interface with a shopping experience."

Sweet!

Heading over to killerstartups.com, under their Why it might be a killer section: "Bunnybot.com allows you to communicate with your friends on GTalk, MSN, AIM, and Yahoo. Let them know about what great items you have found online by having instant connection with your online chat buddy lists. It is great that the bunny is there to assist you with any troubles you may have with the site. It is very cool how the category names are different colors and move around. It is definitely a way to make the site unique and is much more interesting than the usual drop list of categories. Bunnybot.com makes online shopping fun."

Also sweet!