Thursday, November 9

Is This _______ Cheaper Online?

No sooner had I added The Long Tail to my Ringfo "books I've read" list than I learned about Frucall:



What is ringfo? You call 617-712-3574 and enter an ISBN or UPC, it tells you how much that book, CD, DVD, or whatever costs on Amazon.

How is Frucall different? You call 888-DO-FRUCALL and enter an ISBN or UPC, but it grabs prices from Yahoo, Google Base and StreetPrices.com in addition to Amazon. You can buy the item immediately, add a VoiceNote, or text the prices to your phone.

You can also tie Frucall to your Google Calendar, which allows you to search for and listen to upcoming events from your phone - pretty slick. Too bad the site doesn't support RSS, making the stuff I bookmark tough to share. Otherwise, it's a pretty handy service with the holiday shopping season approaching...

Labels: handy

posted by Brad at 11/09/2006 09:36:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

1 Comments:

• Thanks for mentioning Frucall! We are very happy to read you found us to be handy for this upcoming holiday season. While we currently don't support RSS on our site (though some great surprises are coming up...) we do offer the option of creating a wishlist over the phone. Your friends/family members can hear and receive your wishlist as a text message just by entering your phone number. Thanks again for your input and please feel free to contact us with any more comments or suggestions!

  By  Anonymous, at 11/13/2006 1:43 PM