Ookong Tracks Amazon Prices and Issues Deal Alerts

http://lifehacker.com/5484982/ookong-tracks-amazon-prices-and-issues-deal-alerts

Sure it’s fun to hunt for deals online, but it’s even better to be alerted when an item you want is at its lowest price. Ookong is an Amazon.com price comparison tool you can use to track price histories.

You can use Ookong as a stand-alone web site, but it’s not as convenient as using the Firefox extension. Once you install the Firefox extension every item on Amazon will have a “Follow” button

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“Ookong for Amazon

Ookong helps you make purchases on Amazon at the “right time” by tracking price history and providing notifications when prices drop.  Prices on Amazon fluctuate constantly, so this add-on will let you know the instant a good deal is available.

Ookong is built right into Amazon, so when you’re viewing an item listing you can click the largeFollow this item button to begin tracking the price of that item as well as its price history.

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Ookong is seeking an innovative, results-oriented professional to lead the advertising and marketing. This marketing professional will develop and manage online advertising programs and marketing communications campaigns for Ookong products, and will play a key role in driving user adoption of Ookong Firefox addon and other products.

Duties:

• Understand business constraints and opportunities to drive the growth of the product
• Conceive, create and execute innovative advertising and brand programs to achieve product goals
• Research and identify creative partners to promote each product
• Develop, report, and continually improve upon analytical success metrics of online campaigns
• Assist with social media and public relationship activities

Skills/Qualifications:

• BA/BS in marketing preferred
• Proficient use of Adobe Creative Suite or equivalent
• Superior verbal and written communications skills
• Online marketing experience a plus
• Solid quantitative/analytical skills with strong attention to detail
• Good judgment and ability to prioritize assignments
• Self starter, with an entrepreneurial attitude
• Be pro-active and energetic

If you are interested, please send your resume to career@ookong.com. Thank you. ]]> http://blog.ookong.com/hiring-advertising-marketing-specialist/feed/ 0 http://blog.ookong.com/hiring-user-experience-designer/ http://blog.ookong.com/hiring-user-experience-designer/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:39:46 +0000 Ookong http://blog.ookong.com/?p=240 Department/Group: Design Location: Dallas, US Level Entry Level Position Type: Full-time Employee Job Description Job Purpose:

Improve interface usability; increase web traffic and software downloads

Duties:

• Design wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate the user experience of features to project team members
• Create, document, and evangelize new user interface guidelines, and standards
• Ensure a consistent look and feel, and experience across the applications
• Contribute to a consistently high standard of user-centered design across products
• Analyze the usage of website and software through Google Analytics, Urchin and Excel reports
• Perform other tasks as directed and assigned

Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, industrial engineering or equivalent
• Thorough understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices
• Expertise with  creating wireframes and prototypes for applications and web sites
• Expertise with developing flow charts
• Expertise  with  Google Analytics and Excel reports
• Excellent communication skills

If you are interested, please send your resume to career@ookong.com. Thank you. ]]> http://blog.ookong.com/hiring-user-experience-designer/feed/ 0 http://blog.ookong.com/ookong-1-3-0-passed-editor-review-on-firefox-addons/ http://blog.ookong.com/ookong-1-3-0-passed-editor-review-on-firefox-addons/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:54:48 +0000 Jay http://blog.ookong.com/?p=217 Check it out at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9308

The email from Mozilla Add-ons:

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The following files of Ookong – Buy at the right time @ Amazon 1.3.0 have been made public by a Mozilla Add-ons editor:

Ookong – Buy at the right time @ Amazon 1.3.0 – ALL

Review Information:
Reviewer: Jorge Villalobos
Tested on Mac OS X with Firefox
Comments: Looks great – thanks for the update.

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You can install Ookong addon at

• ookong.com: http://ookong.com/downloads/ookong.latest.xpi
• Firefox addons:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9308

You can get it from http://ookong.com or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9308/

Updates:

• Brand-new interface
• Export/Import Following List
• Recommend items you may want
• Search in Following List
• Check Price Drops in statusbar menu
• Customize price drop alert in Options
• Remove Shop As You Go feature
• Many more

Screenshots

• Following List

• Price Drop Notification

See more at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9308/

• more friendly interfaces
• configuring price drop alert threshold
• built-in search
• recommendation
• many more

You will be able to update to Ookong V1.3 next week.

Please help us test the release candidate at http://ookong.com/downloads/ookong.latest.xpi

If you find any bug, please report it to bug@ookong.com and include your Firefox version, intended operation and related items.

We appreciate your support. Thank you.

Ookong Team

Here is the letter from Mozilla:

Congratulations! Your nominated add-on, Ookong – Tailor your own deals @ Amazon.com, has been reviewed by a Mozilla Add-ons editor who approved your add-on to be public.

Your most recent version (1.2.869) has also been made public.

You can view your public add-on now at: http://addons.mozilla.org/addon/9308

Review Information:
Reviewer: Zadkiel M
Comments: Congratulations, your addon has been approved for public status.

Keep up the good work!

http://ookong.com