Video Demo: Hopping Around in Browse 'n Shop

A 45 second demo on shopping/browsing on your own at bunnybot.

Video Demo: Shopping with Bunnybot

A 60 second demo on shopping with our pal Bunnybot.

Video Demo: Shopping with an AIM, MSN, Yahoo or Google Buddy

A 35 second demo on chatting and shopping with an IM buddy who is currently not a bunnybot user.

Video Demo: Shopping with a Bunnybot Buddy

A 45 second demo on how two bunnybot users can have fun chatting and shopping together.

Video Demo: Registering and Instantly Accessing Your Buddies

A 30 second demo on how easy it is to add your instant messaging account info (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google) so that you can instantly start IMing and shopping at bunnybot.com.

Top 10 Reasons Never to Shop Online Alone for the Holidays

PR Web Newswire:
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Bunnybot.com Announces The Top 10 Reasons Never to Shop Online Alone for the Holidays

San Francisco (PRWEB) November 29, 2007 -- With more holiday shopping done online this year, it pays to have your IM buddies closer than your credit card. As you fill your browser with shopping choices, why not get buddy feedback at the same time? Bunnybot is a new shopping experience that integrates instant messaging and shopping--so you can get instant feedback from those you trust most to make the best choices. Bunnybot puts the "social" (as in real-time chat) into online "social shopping".

Here are the Top 10 Reasons Never to Shop Online Alone for the Holidays from Bunnybot.com:

1. Because it's actually fun to go holiday shopping with your friends when you're in your pajamas, propped up in bed with cushy pillows.
2. Because while shopping for your girlfriend's gift late on December 21, you need your best buddy to IM you and say, "Dude, she'll kill you if you get her that."
3. Because your tech-obsessed Uncle Bob is the only one who can help you decide which GPS system is right for dad.
4. Because after a couple of hours of online holiday shopping, your vision can start to go and you need a friend to IM you, "Those really aren't cross-country skis at a great discount, they're a pair of silver latex leggings!"
5. Because when picking out a cell phone for your Christmas list, you need your best friend Emily to remind you that, "Everyone has that in pink, you should go for the purple."
6. Because when picking out an engagement ring, who knows her taste better than her best friend from high school who now lives in Budapest?
7. Because purchases made after 1:00am should never be made alone.
8. Because despite an average 4.5-star rating for that new bestseller, only your brother can IM you to say, "That book is only a page turner if you're snowed in at the airport."
9. Because your friends know what you look good in, especially when you don't.
10. Because a second (real-time) opinion never hurt anyone.

Created by: bunnybot.com

"Bunnybot gives online shoppers the ability to load their buddy directly lists from AIM, Google, MSN, or Yahoo!, then shop and share together across all the products offered through Amazon," said Neill Kramer, Bunnybot's co-founder. "Bunnybot is the easiest way to shop and share online, in real-time, this holiday season."

New Features
Bunnybot has just released several new features, including group chat for registered users. Now you can chat 'n shop with more than one buddy at the same time. In addition, new users can quickly learn how to shop and share with five new short demo videos. All of these new features can be accessed at www.bunnybot.com.

About Bunnybot
With Bunnybot, why shop alone? Bunnybot was created to make online shopping a shared, entertaining experience. Based in California, the company was started by a small team of people with many years of experience in product design, product development and animation.

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Press Contact: Neill Kramer
Company Name: Bunnybot Inc.
Email: Email Us Here: http://www.prweb.com/emailmember.php?prid=572810

And the Winner is... Thomas Leigh

Based on your votes, Thomas Leigh, an 18 year-old who created an awesome spray paint can wielding Bunnybot is the winner of our very first Bling the Bunny Contest. He said, "I just applied my own sort of style." He wins a $150 Amazon.com Gift Certificate. Congratulations!

A brief bio:
Thomas Leigh. Born 12/08/88 in Kettering, England. Now residing in San Francisco, U.S.A. Majoring in Animation at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Draws, paints, animates, and experiments with photography. Takes inspiration from graffiti, the city, and whatever music he's listening to. Enjoys comic books, stuff with zombies, and urban vinyl toys. Uses fragmented sentences in the third person to describe himself.

His website is boydoom.deviantart.com.

Vote for Your Favorite Blinged Bunny!

Please click the bunnies to see a larger version, then come back and vote by scrolling down to the poll.

The winner will receive a $150 Amazon.com Gift Certificate.

Last Day for the Blinged Bunny Contest is Tomorrow - 11.16.2007

Paint-can-wielding bunny dude's got some serious psychedelic designs happenin'. And if you're "chill" you've got the "WORD".

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One more day to submit your blinged bunny.

Had enough of Blinged Bunnies? Talk to Mr. 24-Carrots. He'll Set you Straight!

We've got diamond-studded, Fedora wearing, Hannah Montana blinged, street-wise, and fur-lined bunnies who do their thing when they swagger with their bling!



Keep bringing it. Five more days to submit your blinged bunny.

Enough Blinged Bunnies?

The "Anarchy Bling Bunny boy" says NEVER!
And Fergie is like, "Blinged Bunnies Rule!"



Keep bringing it. Nine more days to submit your blinged bunny.

More Bunnybot Bling-age!

A rockin', politically-correct guitar hero (notice his "no animal testing" bag) and a Parisian-style shop-a-holic?



Keep bringing it. Ten more days to submit your blinged bunny.

More good news coming Bunnybot's way

First an excellent review of bunnybot.com's innovations by Paul O'Brien. In it, Paul discusses how we've created a "comprehensive shopping vertical search engine with an open network that allows users to chat through all of the major IM platforms" and "a unique search experience which, in hindsight, is an obvious enhancement." What Paul really finds intriguing is that, "like Meebo, you could simply use the messenger window as an integrated chat platform; more than Meebo, Bunnybot gives you the single chat interface with a shopping experience."

Sweet!

Heading over to killerstartups.com, under their Why it might be a killer section: "Bunnybot.com allows you to communicate with your friends on GTalk, MSN, AIM, and Yahoo. Let them know about what great items you have found online by having instant connection with your online chat buddy lists. It is great that the bunny is there to assist you with any troubles you may have with the site. It is very cool how the category names are different colors and move around. It is definitely a way to make the site unique and is much more interesting than the usual drop list of categories. Bunnybot.com makes online shopping fun."

Also sweet!

Bunnybot's Been Blinged!

Oh what a happy day!



Bring it on, people. 14 more days to submit your blinged bunny.

We launched!

We finally took our first bunny hops by announcing that we are ready for social shoppers and IMers to Buddy Shop!



And then a goddess named domestika gave us a sweet review and came up with a couple of winning lines:

"Who do you ask those important real-time questions, like, 'Would this make my butt look like the business end of a cow?' or 'Do you know if Dad already has one of those?'"

By IMing and shopping in Bunnybot you can get answers to those vexing questions without having to wait!

And, referring to our pongwords:
"Type in a query and you get a swirling tag cloud of options to browse in the virtual storefront." I like the "swirling tag cloud."

Finally, the very busy folks over at mashable.com had a few interesting comments, wondering whether we'd do well as a stand-alone application. To which I commented, "Our opportunity is to extend and embed Bunnybot into the social networks and IM platforms in a way that creates a win-win situation. Social networks and IM platforms are not shopping-oriented, and so our focus is to create the best shopping experience possible within these spaces.

We want to populate like... rabbits (and avoid the low-flying hawks)."