Gifteer: already one year!

Yes, it’s already been a year since Gifteer is facilitating your gifts!
The site was indeed launched on November 15th, 2008.
We are ready to help our thousands of users to prepare Christmas 2009 that will be full of gifts, no doubt about that.

Happy Birthday Gifteer!

Gifteer reminds you of your friends’ birthdays

Yesterday we announced a ton of new features. Here is more information.

As a universal wish list site, we had to remind you of upcoming friends’ birthdays. So we put together four types of emails:

• a “D-60″ email, that reminds you 2 months in advance (60 days, dughh!) that your birthday is coming, so you have ample time to add items to your wish list, so that your friends will know what to get you,
• a “D-30″ email, that reminds people who have added you in their friends list, of your upcoming birthday,
• a “D-1″ email, that reminds your friends they should call you the next day to wish you a happy birthday,
• A “D-day” friendly email from us here at Gifteer, to wish you a HAPPPPY BIRTHDAYYYY!!!!

Here is how it looks like on Gmail :

Year of birth on Gifteer

We finally decided to include the year of birth on the users’ profiles. You can set the full date of birth, and decide not to share the year on your profile (we looked out to our senior users who do not want to show their age to the world!”.
Eventually, it will help us suggest gifts to get to your friends based on actual wishes entered by other users of the same age.

In the process, we had some philosophical debates regarding the best way to input a full date of birth. If you look on other websites, you’ll find various options:

digg.com
yahoo.com
netvibes.com

At Gifteer, we want to make your life easier, and since we are always looking for innovative stuff that speed things up, we have chosen a particular input format that we hope you’ll like: you type in the date with any format like 2/12/1974 or 2 12 1974 or 2-12-1974, we get what you meant and confirm that the date is valid. The whole thing, of course, super super fast.

So let’s go to www.gifteer.com to update your profile!

Gifteer RSS feeds in Netvibes

You may have noticed the new button at the bottom of gifteer?
It lets you add birthday reminders to your Netvibes home page, so you won’t forget birthdays any more!

RSS feeds for birthday reminders for Gifteer

Another innovation from Gifteer: RSS feeds to remind you of upcoming birthdays!

You can configure you favorite RSS reader (Google Reader, Outlook 2007, Netvibes, …) to see the list of your friends’ birthdays, for the next two months. It’s a great way to avoid missing birthdays, without having to clutter your inbox with reminder emails.
If you have already used RSS feeds for news or your favorite blog, you know how convenient these feeds are. So don’t hesitate any longer, add birthday reminders to your RSS reader!

RSS feeds coming to Gifteer

You may already know the RSS feeds for the Gifteer blog, but did you know we are about to implement RSS feeds for birthday reminders and for the latest wishes added by your friends?
At Gifteer we think that RSS feeds are a great way to stay abreast of the “wish news” of your friends, without having to come to the site. So for the next release (wait a few more days), you will see three types of RSS feeds:
- birthday reminders
- latest wishes of a friend (eg: Jane’s latest wishes, very handy when her birthday is getting closer)
- latest wishes of all your friends

Winter has arrived on Gifteer!

The new Winter Theme has arrived on Gifteer!
Snowflakes, blue ice, cold stars… and a nice polar teddy bear are joining us for the Winter season.
Don’t forget to delete all the wishes you received for Christmas, and start adding new ones.

Clean up your wish lists

It’s time to clean up your wish lists and remove all these great gifts you got for Christmas, just to make sure you won’t get them again next year!
You should start adding new wishes right away to prepare for your birthday

A remember our Gifteer advice: put as many wishes as possible, so your friends will have plenty of choice and you will still be surprised when you open the box!

Gifts and surprises

We are often asked: how can I have a Gifteer account and still look surprised when I get my presents?
Our advice is simple: put as many wishes as possible, so that you will never know which gifts are waiting to be open in your stockings! If you have only one or two wishes, then yes, it’s going to be harder to look surprises