[1] [2] Wantz.it is a simple app yet mighty useful. It’s a tool that makes the creation of wish lists easy and fun - living online proof that less is always more.

The idea comes from the fact that everyone needs a wish list, but there isn’t a simple way to create and compile the links from different websites into a single list. Amazon has a good wish list capability, so does Thinkgeek but those sites only cater to their own products. No one has actually thought of creating something to easily combine all of it together — until now that is. Wantz.it takes the concept of combined wish lists and brings it to another level, piggy backing off [3] Del.icio.us.

You’ll need a [3] Del.icio.us account first before signing up with Wantz.it. From then on, when you are saving a link to [3] Del.icio.us, tag it with the word “dowant”.

Your item will then automatically appear in a personalized page that’s assigned to you when you first signed up. Take a look at my wish list page [6] here.

Here’s another good feature, someone who is potentially going to buy the item on your list can “reserve” it. That essentially marks the item on the list as a purchased item (to avoid anyone else trying to buy it). In order to “reserve” that item, Wantz.it will prompt the user with a personalized question about the wish list owner.

I love the simplicity and the fact that I already use [3] Del.icio.us for all my bookmarking needs is a plus. Being able to put all that I want in one place is a good thing as it could be distributed and shared real easily.

So the next time J or my relatives asks me to give them a wish list, I’ll just point them to this site… no second guessing what to buy me and I can sneak in the occasional “hey, if you don’t know what to get for me, here’s my wishlist”.

The only negative - it only works with [3] Del.icio.us. I think more people will use it if it had the capability to *read* from other social bookmarking sites as well.

Wantz.it is created by [9] Christian Verschaeren. It’s still in the beta development stage (isn’t everything nowadays) with Facebook apps and blog widgets in the works.