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Using Facebook to Find Gifts on Etsy


Etsy+Facebook = Easy Gift Buying

I wandered over to the home page of our portfolio company Etsy today and found this at the top:

Etsy gift finder

So I clicked on that “get gift recommendations” button and it asked me to connect to Facebook, which I did and lo and behold, I got a list of all my Facebook friends and gift suggestions for them:

Fb etsy friends

This is particularly useful for friends like Brad Feld who fall under the category “what the hell can I get for Brad that he doesn’t already have?”. Well here are some ideas:

Brad feld etsy

That clay Farmville sheep thingy is on its way to Brad’s office in Boulder right now.

It’s that easy.

I am going to use this gift finder for all my holiday gift giving this season.

Give it a try and let me know what you think.

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Fred Wilson’s full blog can be found here. Bio: I am a VC. I have been for 19 years. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC, which isn’t the easiest place to build technolo ...read more

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