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Welcome to Spree.ly! Spree.ly, GetVocal’s latest self-funded social experiment, has been released in the “Nick” of time to help with your online Christmas shopping experience. Spree.ly (@spreely) allows you to shop online with your family and friends on virtually any shopping site.

Built using Ruby on Rails, Spree.ly is designed from the bottom up to provide online shoppers with the most secure and social shopping experience. At the heart of our application is a custom-built, secure proxy service with real-time, and push-based messaging. Temporary cookies as required by most shopping sites are temporarily stored but all of these cookies get eaten by our Cookie Monster every night at midnight.

Like Google Wave, Spree.ly employs a real-time push messaging service for its live chat and webpage URL communication between you and your friends while browsing sites. These messages are pushed out as one-time broadcasts to all browsers shopping under the 5 character session appended to the end of the Spree.ly URL. Once these messages are delivered in real-time, they are gone from their servers. New friends joining the shopping experience will not see previous chat messages or web page URLs visited by you and your friends. You are also notified as new friends join your shopping experience. Click here to learn more about our security considerations.

You can begin your social shopping experience by directing your browser to http://spree.ly and clicking on the link in the middle of the page with the 5 character suffix. You can update your status messages on Twitter and Facebook or via e-mail to alert your friends of your current shopping spree online. You will be notified instantly as your friends join Spree.ly and immediately be able to chat and share web pages with them in the sidebar on the left of the page.

Check out our blog for more information.