Bunnybot Launches: Introducing the First 'Buddy-Shopping' Experience

Now you never have to shop online alone. Bunnybot blends an engaging shopping experience with cross-platform instant messaging.

San Francisco (Vocus) November 1, 2007 -- With online shopping set to hit new records this holiday season, many people will be shopping solo from their offices, cubicles and laptops, looking for that perfect gift. For those who love the social aspect of shopping, a new web experience, called Bunnybot (https://www.bunnybot.com/), has arrived on the scene.

Bunnybot connects shoppers with millions of products and lets them instantly share items with their online buddies in an interactive chat window. Today, Bunnybot offers all the products available through Amazon.com and its thousands of Marketplace partners. Other popular retailers are planned.

"Bunnybot unifies shopping and instant messaging into a seamless experience, making it easy to explore ideas with friends or family, get a second opinion, or just have fun browsing gifts or essential items together -- just as a group of friends would, in a shopping mall," said Bunnybot founder Neill Kramer.

Bunnybot's buddy-shopping experience features a patent-pending shopping window in which shoppers and their buddies can share and view merchandise while chatting. Bunnybot lets shoppers ask their friends and family those crucial questions before hitting the Buy button. Questions like: "have you tried this?", "do you think he'll like that?", or "do you think it will look good on me?" With Bunnybot, you need never shop alone online again.

Getting started with Bunnybot is extremely easy. Create a Bunnybot user name, give Bunnybot your existing IM IDs (Bunnybot can work with AIM, Google Talk, MSN, and Yahoo!), and then start shopping. Bunnybot provides helpful tips and shopping suggestions. But the fun really starts when you invite your buddies to come along -- Bunnybot knows which buddies are online, and any of them can be invited to go buddy-shopping with one click.

Bunnybot is ideal for cramming a quick shop into a lunch hour with an IM buddy, going shopping with a distant friend, or for a parent to shop for something with a far-flung student. Buddy shopping makes it much easier to find a gift for 'hard-to-shop-for' people like grandparents, aunts, uncles and siblings.

Even without a buddy, Bunnybot makes online shopping a simpler, more engaging experience. Bunnybot takes the scrolling out of shopping and provides fast access to price comparisons, user reviews and related products. The game-like experience encourages browsing as well as sharing, and Bunnybot provides fast access to product details, user reviews and comparable products.

About Bunnybot

With Bunnybot, you never have to shop online alone! Bunnybot was created to make online shopping a shared, entertaining experience. Based in California, the company was started by a small, virtual team of people with many years of experience in product design, product development and animation. Visit www.bunnybot.com.

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