Shopping With My Friendsters
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Social networking features are popping up on auction and shopping sites, allowing visitors to compare notes and turn e-commerce into a social experience.
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Red and green have nothing on silver and gold this year. Here are a passel of perfect gifts to make new friends and keep the old.
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Vendors and researchers have detected various new trends at play in online retail shopping this holiday season, such as shoppers' increased use of search engines and comparison shopping services to make better informed buying decisions. Not all trends are encouraging, however, such as a disconcertingly high percentage of shoppers willing to buy from spammers.
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Sometimes it's good to have friends. And competition.
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Thanks for your thoughtful gift! Can I get the receipt from you?
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Dieters beware. You might be watching what you eat but if a friend next to you is tucking into a calorie loaded snack you could be in trouble.
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A quirky new social-networking service called Mash lets you customize your friends' profiles. The Yahoo service, in public beta now, gives you the option to leave your profile open to your friends, who can choose glitter text for your page design, or add unicorns and kittens to your profile.
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Shopping site Boddit lets holiday spendthrifts quickly compare prices from online retailers. It also scours the web for coupons and promotional codes to help you save cash. In Monkey Bites.
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Some last minute advice about the hot tech toys
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PHILADELPHIA - Now that gifts are unwrapped, a trip to the merchandise return counter can&#39;t be far behind. Just be sure to take along your receipt - and a photo ID.
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Looking at the steam coming off the mail in my inbox this week, I definitely need a place to lay low for a while. One reader kindly recommended Geek Cruises, where I could work on my tan and my Perl programming skills at the same time. He also thought it would help my love life but I'm not so sure. The brochures are full of guys with goatees and laptops -- not exactly my idea of The Love Boat.
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It&#39;s the last weekend before Christmas and for many shoppers it&#39;s the last chance to buy gifts. But if you&#39;re still putting off that trip to the mall you&#39;re not alone.
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By Kathy Morrison, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 17--With just about a week left for Christmas shopping, I couldn't resist offering a few more suggestions of gifts for readers of chapter books.
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NEW YORK Want to find people who just bought a snowblower? How about a hunter who enjoys off-roading, happens to be in the market for a pickup and is leaning toward a Chevy? What about the people others turn to for recommendations about electronics? Perhaps you'd like to speak to a couple million pragmatists?
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When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
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Life & style: Today's dilemma for Beth:  My friends are off to the festivals but I'm broke. How can I have fun?
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Is Yahoo! Personals all dressed up with no place to go?