Even though ProductWiki does not provide a platform for online shopping, it provides product information which helps users to make shopping decisions.
In my opinion, Shopster application should make use of the services provided by sites like ProductWiki, which will provide shopping related data.
ProductWiki is a wiki for information related to products. I.e. the site contains information about different products which are grouped into categories like computers, fashion, music & recordings etc. The content is added & modified by users like a conventional wiki.
The site aims to provide unbiased, accurate and community-based resource for product information.
ProductWiki is open content, which means nobody owns the content – anyone can use the information on the site in any way they want to, commercial or otherwise, as long as they give credit to ProductWiki as the source.
The project has just started and information for many products may be missing in the list, but it is beginning to gather momentum. The basic information about the products is available in the product page. If any user needs further information, or has issues making purchase decisions, they can start a discussion or comment on a product page and ask for opinions from other users.
Currently the site is focused on English content and products released in North America including some occasional Europe and Japan only product. However, the creators of the site hope to spread globally as the project grows.
source: http://www.productwiki.com/
That’s a good idea if we are going to retrieve information about the products… The page provides a full list of items which may be included in our application.. We should consider that source in a case of forgetting to include some kind of relevant information for each product.