Wishood – Making Your Wishes Come True

An article by Ayelet Noff    3 Comments

Got a wish? Post it on Wishood and it may come true. Wishood is a site which connects people who wish with those who grant. On Wishood you can share all your heart desires, create a wishlist, and other members may make your wish come true.

You can wish for professional help in finding a job or you can wish for people to help stop global warming. Wish for anything you like. Even if that wish is “unrealistic” such as “I wish for world peace”, it can still open up a nice discussion on the topic. Like in other communities, helping others with their wishes draws more attention to your own wishes and by granting the wishes of others, you can increase the chances of making your own wishes come true.

Wishood has just relaunched their new site and the interface is very user friendly. Here are some of the more interesting wishes I’ve stumbled upon:

“My wish is that wishood.com will be bigger than myspace.com and make everyone’s wish come true because if people spent as much time granting wishes on wishood.com as they do on myspace.com the world would be a better place…”

http://www.wishood.com/Wish.aspx?w=2182

“I wish I could drive a train. I’d love to ride for fun but I also long to be a real train engineer. I want to show my son that I can be somebody…that wishes really can come true.”

http://www.wishood.com/Wish.aspx?w=1890

“I wish more people would help save the rainforests. One easy way would be for you to Adopt-an-Acre with the Nature Conservancy.”

http://www.wishood.com/Wish.aspx?w=1878

The only thing I would suggest to Wishood is to think about creating more incentives for people to get involved. For example, creating contests to see who can help other members get their wishes, or creating a ranking system whereby those who grant wishes receive higher rankings.

Lastly, I wanted to include a video created by Lior Katz, the Founder of Wishood and Gil Rimon. If you remember, these are the guys who brought us Supermarket 2.0. So here is Baby 2.0: What if we had to register baby names the way we register domains?

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