Mpire which launched initially in November 2006, has launched Shopwave, a service that lets you shop visually using a Flash based tool.
The User Interface is clean and simple with a rich feature set. The feature that i liked the most is the ability to visualize the price trends of your desired items in recent days. This way users could make informed decision on buying immediately or holding on for a few more days.
Other features include mashup of Amazon and Epinions to provide user reviews on site along with coupons and deals, plugin support for IE7 and Firefox, Digg like voting on popular deals and the ability to describe your item visually in case you don’t know exactly what you are looking for.
Visual shopping is an exciting space and we are beginning to see startups like Browse Goods, Riya´s Like.com and theFind.com targeting this market.
Also see Mashable and Techcrunch.
