Circular Central 1.0 Is Live On Yahoo! Deals
Posted on 12 November 2008 by Patrick FlanaganNo Comments
(3.00 out of 5)
Loading ...So if you do nothing else, just click this link: http://yahoocircularcentral.shoplocal.com/ Having me ‘tell‘ you about this innovative new approach to multi-retailer local shopping is much less effective than me ‘showing‘ you. Feel free to leave any comments and feedback as this is a work in progress. Also note that you can get to this by going to http://deals.yahoo.com/ and clicking the tab labeled “Weekly Ads“
So here are a few screen grabs of what the Circular Central version 1.0 release contains. There is much planned and already in development for building out the feature set within this web experience. So stayed tuned as the ShopLocal team attempts to re-define what aggregated local shopping looks like in a Web 2.0 context.
- Here is the initial entry view that all users hit where the user has to select a retailer of interest
- Here is a retailer centric view where all of a specific retailer’s ads are shown
- Here is a new browse result view we came up with inspired by Apple’s iTunes cover flow
- Here is the browse by weekly ad page view (where most users always gravitate to)
Most importantly however, hats off to the three ShopLocal Flash / Flex Ninja’s that pulled this off in under two months total development time. Building a scalable and load bearing rich internet application is no easy feat. 
Quick update: Local media analyst Greg Sterling also did a concise write up of the new Circular Central on his blog Screenwerk. Worth a quick read for an outside perspective on the topic.
Here is one more review from AppScout on CircularCentral
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