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Amazon has expanded its Wish List feature to include not just items on the site, but any page on the web. The new Universal Wish List as it's known offers a bookmarklet for adding any web page to your wish list.
The bookmarklet works a bit like some of the price tracking services we've covered, such as OfferTrax. When you're on a page with an item you like, just click the bookmarklet and Amazon will attempt to grab a thumbnail image and allow you to enter a price, title and description.
When you view your wish list on Amazon the outside items are displayed as links to the external site with a thumbnail preview.
The really useful part is that the new Universal Wish List feature feeds right into any widgets you might be using – so now you can bookmark any item and pipe it straight into your blog or other page so all your doting admirers can buy it for you.
Of course on the creepier side, the feature gives Amazon even more insights into your shopping habits, but if that doesn't bother you, the new features certainly do make begging, er, tracking your material desires quite a bit simpler.
[via Micro Persuasion]
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