Search engine, typing in wish first to see what comes up. Nothing relevant, type in wishwall, the first hit is wishwall.net. Similar concept except in early beta format. Back to search results wishwall.me down on the list but on the first page. This is using google search. Try on Yahoo. Nothing on first or second page. Nothing that related. Back to google search. Wallwisher.com, Wallmural.com images for wish wall all appear ahead of wishwall.me (actually checking back in 3 days later, wishwall.me appears high in my search now). Click on wishwall.me, sent to landing page, default setting is a prompt page, Login, Sign Up, Wish. Recommend. Close prompt but only in corner small x. difficult to find. Close and go to landing pages.
On landing page. Let hand side: What is wishwall? What can I do? What’s in it for me. Take tour, Visit Help. Rows of videos of products facebook thumbnails of members. Sign up login was the landing page but still options of course with buttons on upper right hand of the toolbar. I sign up. Sign up using facebook, automatic integration with facebook. Ask for permission to post as if Wishwall.me, no way! Access my data and time, no. Take tour. Easy to recommend to friends, limited number of wishes, earn rewards for wishes, earn rebates. Notification in the toolbar. Welcome box on the left hand side of the page. Website in Beta. Option to give feedback. No information about the company, difficult to find a how it works page. Notified that I have 6 free wishes when I sign in. No personal friends on wishwall, I’m prompted to invite friends, large facebook photos profiles show up. Cancel, go back to home page. Scrolling through products. Oh great, rocket propelled grenade launcher. Weapons, ninjas, Assassins creed, games. Options to Wish or Recommend on each product. Moving over to social aspects. On sidebars. Go to facebook. Wishwall.me in Beta, somehow the application has 170,000 Users. What’s going on here? They do not have a facebook page but you can “like” their facebook application you will be redirected to the website. Going to click on wishwall.me members. See what people have wished, you can follow them. Searching for them in Facebook to try and identify patterns. Looking at wishwall.me members with uncommon names to make it easy to find them. Follow on user. Teenager, likes video games. Early high school. More video games, books art of war, assassins creed, halo, interest video games, swords assault weapons. Does he need to be reported to authorities? Works at Nothing you need to know.
Back to the wishwall.me landing page. Clicking on different products with different wishers. Majority of Wishers on landing page male. No way to interact except once you’ve wished or recommended. Searching for forums through google. No forums, business pages. But Yahoo! Questions come up first. Is Wishwall.me a Scam? Discussions come up multiple times. Back to wishwall.me. Trace users through facebook again. Now checking on users that wished for Assassins Creed hoodie. Pulling up users in Facebook. Also searching for products that women “Wished” for. Separate search filter for women’s “products”. Women’s page products, diamonds, coffee, wedding dress, consumer electronics. Fewer wishes. Trace Wishes through facebook. Middleschool student, female. User from the US. Scotty McCreegy running shoes, male and female users on women’s products. Trace a wisher that appears older than most other users based on thumbnail photo. Facebook imprint, little overlap in interests with other users. Still Bad to the Bone first line in “About USER” on facebook. I have No money, another claim. Graduated high school in 1969. Likely in 60s. Back to wishwall.ma. Trying to find forum for users to interact. There is no forum for users to interact. Trying tumblr. Nothing except link to login to wishwall. On Tumblr site is grouped with Pinterest.com. Searching for demographic or trend info on site. Visits per month. Now looking for other online footprint. Trying to find user discussions. Looking for Twitter conversations now. No direct twitter account but searching for #wishwall.me. Results come up about users tweeting about them. 100% of tweets related to “Just Entered To Win” or “Help me win”. Fantasy, technology, “Join to help me win”. Back to wishwall.me. Product submitted by Real Person. Facebook thumbnails thread on product. “Is this real?” Can I get one? Awsome! I want this! Sweet! iPhone like watch product. Is this product real?
Product: Real life Fallout 3 Brother Armor. Holy sh**t I want this. Switties. Oh….my….:D. 71 comments on armor. Spanish first language users too. Most Twitters appear to be teenagers, a lot use video game character in Twitter photo. Assassins Creed and Halo most popular wished products. Videos of products made to seem low-budget user-generated content. Showing product in real life situations. Lots of weapons. Or fake weapons. Check thread. Lots of uncertainty around legitimacy of products. No response from wishwall.me. Some people trying to clarify, perhaps work for wishwall.me but don’t want to appear as if they do. Searching now. Lots of weapon or game products. Lots of fantasy products, the largest categories are technology gadgets. Other Categories include: Movies, Music, Bags, Watches, Electronics, Shoes, Games, Jewelry. No winners highlighted anywhere on the site. For each user you can click on their name view their Wish profile.
Thoughts on design
Very simply layout. Blue and white color template. Ease of actions once on the site. You can Wish or Recommend, view your profile, view other profiles but little else. Brands not highlighted either, just the product
