techcrunch.com — A startup called booBox allows bloggers and other websites to sell items from Amazon and other etailers directly from their websites, without actually leaving the blog/website. Clicking on an image in the blog simply brings up a lightbox with the item on Amazon. Readers can then go through the checkout process and return to the original site.
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artofwar420Jan 21, 2007
Yeah, I mean what does booBox even mean? I don't know. I don't want to know, it sounds like a "Box" that makes you go "booo"
nreynoldsJan 21, 2007
@ mirrorfanyou know, for a fan of mirrors, you sure linked to a stupid website that has nothing to do with anything and you're spamming. so BLOCK!!!sorry, didn't mean to scare you.
neoknightJan 21, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://booboxland.com/">http://booboxland.com/</a>link to site
hsokineesJan 22, 2007
"You know middle clicking is so much faster :-p"Wow.. just... wow! thanks lol i never knew about that :D
agretJan 22, 2007
I just tested their demo on the homepage <a class="user" href="http://www.booboxland.com/">http://www.booboxland.com/</a> scroll to the bottom of that page for the demo.When you click on one of the demo pictures it asks you "do you want to buy any of the following?" and has some products displayed. I think that when you click one it should open in a new window, it kinda sucks browsing amazon in an inline window that size.The page title for their homepage is hilarious "booBox Land, here the booBoxes gonna born" =P
limewoodJan 22, 2007
completely agree. someone can easily spoof that and use it to phish usernames and passwords. when i went through the demo there was no way to tell if that was really amazon.
yurikoJan 22, 2007
there are other sites that you can sell independent content on and get a higher percentage... but the amazon's of the world get more share of hits cause they spend more on brand - so they take more in the cut. www.si-mi.com is a site that sells independent blogs and content and gives you 90% of the cut after costs, likewise bandspace gives you a good cut for independent music but these sites don't have that much traffic cause they don't spend anything on advertising, unlike the big boys.
auriumsoftSep 27, 2008
errr, I know this is a bit old and also the comments, but I bet 99% of these negative comments are all just because the article says in the first words "Brazil based". If it was an USA thing, surely most of the comments would be constructive/positive.By the way, booBox got an investment of US$ 300k from Monashees Capital after the article on TechCrunch.So the money destination is not only to you guys USA Center of Universe :) (even if the cash came from USA).