We’ve added Wists to our Social Networks. This free service “lets you visually bookmark any page on the web, then automatically create a small image, text summary and add set of keywords without having to save and upload anything.” Cool tool! The social aspect comes into play when you share your bookmarks with friends, family or anyone else who could use a firm hint that these items would make a great gift for YOU. A sister site, Cribcandy, makes it simple to tag items for your home. We’ve added it as our first automated Shopperati.

Buying jewelry from Bead for Life, a non-profit company based in Boulder, Colorado, helps struggling families in impoverished Uganda make a living off their craft. The beads, made of rolled magazine paper, are strung together in complementary or matching colors and then varnished for durability (but take it off before you go swimming). You can order single-, double- or triple-strand bracelets and necklaces for reasonable prices. The sporty, colorful bracelet shown here is $15. All the profits go back into Ugandan economic development. As a Mother’s Day or year-end gift for a teacher, this is one present that does honorable double duty.

The classic Sony Walkman was to a high-end stereo system what the iPod is to the … what? There really hasn’t been much for audiophiles to get gaga about in our nascent digital music revolution. But a company called Olive may change that with its family of CD-players that combine high quality storage with media management and home networking capability. The Musica ($1,099, shown) has a 160 GB hard drive and holds 40,000 MP3 quality songs or 6,000 in “lossless” quality. An integrated database reads the CD details and stores it. The player features both a wireless and a wired ethernet connection so you can access music from other devices, and it has the ability to stream from the Musica to a PC or Mac. And for the way serious audiophile (those with an “11″ on their volume control), the Opus ($2,999) has a 400 GB hard drive to store up to 1,100 CDs in lossless quality. Both units are available directly from Olive.

In our ever-continuing quest for the best thigh-coverage money can buy (under $50 of course), we noticed that Lands End has a new pair of Bermuda shorts on its website. Bermuda in Madras, with 5-pocket styling, made in India. Now that’s cool and classic, and we’re thigh-ankful.