By popular demand, we have added 3 more stores to Spree.ly! Now you and your friends can shop together on Lucy.com, TeaVana.com, and Kohls.com! You have the power to stimulate the economy - shop with your friends online at http://spree.ly today!
December 27, 2009
Lucy, TeaVana, & Kohls Added!
December 26, 2009
Spree.ly is Now Integrated with Twitter!
@Spreely is now fully integrated with Twitter! This means that you can now log into Spree.ly using your Twitter account. With the click of the mouse, you can invite all of your Twitter followers to join you on your shopping spree! As your friends begin shopping with you, their Twitter avatars now show up above the chat box so that everyone can see who is shopping together. Everyone’s chat messages and browser pages also now show their avatars.
We hope that this enhancement will help spread the word more quickly about our wonderful new shopping service and make Spree.ly easier to use and share with your friends. Please let us know if you have any additional suggestions!
December 20, 2009
New Design and Stores!
Check out our new site design at http://spree.ly! We believe that the steps for starting a shopping experience with your friends has been simplified and we can now present all of the stores in our mall (currently 18) nicely on the home page.
New stores include:
- Ikea
- Threadless
- ModCloth
- Gump’s
- Woot!
- Shop.com
Another cool new feature is that your invited friends begin their shopping experience with the store that you select when you start your social shopping!
Let us know what you think!
Team @Spreely
December 13, 2009
New Stores Added!
Spree.ly is proud to announce new stores to our social shopping marketplace including:
- Zappos
- Craigslist
- Barneys New York
- WineLibrary
- Petco
Spree.ly is simple to use. Start your social shopping experience today and shop with an unlimited number of friends at the same time online sharing pages and chats with each other as you browse through our online shopping mall from the comforts of your own home or office.
Simply visit http://spree.ly and click on the link with the 5 character code to begin shopping. Next send out shopping invitations to your family and friends on Twitter, Facebook, and via Email. It’s fun!
November 29, 2009
3-2-1 Launch!
Spree.ly (http://Spree.ly), GetVocal.com’s latest self-funded social experiment, has been released in the “Nick” of time to help with your online Christmas social shopping experience. Spree.ly (@spreely) allows you to shop online with your family and friends on virtually any shopping site.
Spree.ly provides a proxy-based, shop-with-a-friend experience with no registration or sign-ins and with built-in live chat. In addition to Amazon, Spree.ly lets you shop with an unlimited number of friends at Nordstrom, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Overstock, Williams-Sonoma, and Frederick’s of Hollywood. Our flexible architecture allows us to approve more stores weekly! In fact if you are brave enough to help beta test new shopping sites, we have included place in the store directory for you to go to any web address that you would like to surf with your friends (Caution: not all shopping sites play nice!)
Built using Ruby on Rails in less than 30 days, Spree.ly is designed from the bottom up to provide online shoppers with the most secure and social shopping experience. At the heart of our application is a custom-built, secure proxy service with real-time, push-based messaging and no database or data store of any kind. The only data persisted is temporary cookies as required by most shopping sites but all of these cookies get eaten by our Cookie Monster every night at midnight.
Like Google Wave, Spree.ly employs a real-time push messaging service for its live chat and webpage URL communication between you and your friends while browsing sites. These messages are pushed out as one-time broadcasts to all browsers shopping under the 5 character session appended to the end of the Spree.ly URL. Once these messages are delivered in real-time, they are gone from their servers. New friends joining the shopping experience will not see previous chat messages or web page URLs visited by you and your friends. You are also notified as new friends join your shopping experience. To learn more about our security considerations, please visit http://spree.ly/browse/security.
You can begin your social shopping experience by directing your browser to http://spree.ly and clicking on the link in the middle of the page with the 5 character suffix. You can update your status messages on Twitter and Facebook or via e-mail to alert your friends of your current shopping spree online. You will be notified instantly as your friends join Spree.ly and immediately be able to chat and share web pages with them in the sidebar on the left of the page.
Our revenue model is based on an affiliate program, revenue sharing model but we hope to bring customers special offers such as additional discounts and free shipping promotions not advertised on these sites.
For more information, you can follow Spree.ly on Twitter at http://twitter.com/spreely or visit http://spree.ly/about or contact chris@getvocal.com.
RSS feed: http://spreely.tumblr.com/rss
