To set up a gift exchange with Elfster, just create a group and invite friends by entering their e-mail address. You can set the deadline for your friends to accept the invitation and then schedule the date for Elfster to draw gift buddies. Once you know to whom you need to give your gifts to, you can check out his wishlist and purchase the product directly.

Elfster also shows the latest activities from your friends much like a Facebook status. In addition, you can also get ideas by viewing the trending gifts. Share, Like, or add the item to your wishlist for your friends to see.

Elfster gives us the quickest way to setup Secret Santas online, which is very useful not only during the holidays, but for also checking out gift ideas.

Feature:

• Organize Secret Santa online.
• Know trending gift items.
• View wishlist of your friends.
• Draw names to know who you need to give your gift.
• Schedule and notifications available.
• Send message to your secret sant

Check out Elfster @ www.elfster.com

Tango Card is a useful online service that allows users to buy a Tango card and send it to the recipient via email. The recipient can then exchange the value of the card with one or multiple retailer gift cards (includes Amazon, Starbucks, Nike etc.), or redeem it for cash. They can even donate a specific amount of it to a non-profit organization as well.

The Tango Card mobile application is available for the iPhone and Android which allows users to redeem the card from their mobile.

Features

• More personal – allows receipent to buy what they want, not what others want them to have.
• A list of brand names available to choose from.
• Card can even be redeemed for cash if needed.
• Donate unused amount to NPOs.
• Apps available for iPhone and Android.
• Similar tools: Giftly, Cardnap, CardHub Gift Card Exchange, Snoopf and CardPool.

Check out Tango Card @ www.tangocard.com

They have a wide range of customized products available. Items like sporting goods, clothing, electronics and beauty needs are all represented. Once you narrow it down to a category, there are literally hundreds of products to choose from. They even have an iPhone case that costs over $7,000.

Once you find a product that interests you, they will link to the retailer that carries the product. Of course, if browsing for random products doesn’t suit you, you can always use their search feature to find exactly what you are looking for.

Features:

• Browse customized products from a range of categories.
• Links to retailers carrying each listed product.
• Search function to find exactly what you are looking for.

Find Make Yours @ www.madeyours.com

Shopycat is a web service that works as a Facebook application. The app’s purpose is to help you find presents based on the LIKEs of your friends. After you authorize the app access to your Facebook account, you can view your list of friends. Place the mouse pointer over a friend’s thumbnail and you will be provided with a gift suggestion based on one of your friend’s LIKEs.

To get more suggestions and view more of their LIKEs, simply click on this thumbnail. You can then view a number of suggestions that your friend will likely be interested in. Items you find in the app have prices mentioned; anything you find purchase-worthy can be instantly bought online through Wal-Mart’s website; the app itself is Wal-Mart’s creation.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Works as a Facebook application.
• Helps you find suitable presents for friends.
• Bases present suggestions based on friend LIKEs.
• Presents include prices.
• Items can be purchased online from Wal-Mart.
• Similar tools: GiftGenome, What Can I Get With $20?, WouldTheyLike?, Giftalogs, GiftGen, GiftBox, eBay Group Gifts, PresentBee, Wraply, FromABirdie, Webgiftr and Lottay.
• Also read related article: 50 Tools & Resources For Christmas Gift Ideas.

Check out Shopycat @ apps.facebook.com/shopycat

To start, Presentify.me will ask you if you have already purchased a coupon or not. If you do not have a coupon yet, you can search for coupons using their aggregator. Once you have purchased a coupon, just click “Presentify it!” to start designing the gift certificate. You can choose from different templates, edit the details of the coupon, and attach the voucher information that you paid for.

Once done, you can print the voucher-turned gift certificate and send it out to your friend. Presentify.me effectively makes boring e-mail coupons attractive and worthy of the deal.

More themes will be available soon, as this is shaping to be a nice addition for deal-buyers.

Features:

• Convert your purchased deals into gift certificates.
• Works with Groupon, Tippr, Dealfind, and Giltcity.
• Load your purchased coupon or find a deal from the website.
• Choose from three holiday themes.

Check out Presentify.me @ http://www.presentify.me

RetroGifts is a free to use website that lets you find nostalgia-inducing gifts for your friends. The site basically lets you type in a year and then discover gifts from around that period. You can use the site to find a suitable gift for your friends by typing in their birth year and then choosing a gift from the search results. The results are sorted categorically and include descriptions. Popular keywords are provided to you to achieve better search results. You are also provided with Amazon and/or eBay links for the gifts to purchase them.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps find ‘retro’ gifts for friends.
• Lets you search gifts by typing in a year.
• Sorts results categorically.
• Provides descriptions and purchasing links for items.

Check out RetroGifts @ http://retrogiftsco.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Giftly is a web service that lets you buy, send, and use online gift cards. The way the site works is very convenient for the user. You start by purchasing gift cards online and selecting up to 3 different places that the card can be used at. These places can be any place that Yelp has listed. For ideas about what to get a gift card for, you can browse the site’s Ideas section.

The person who uses the gift card then visits any one of the 3 places on the card and uses the app to use the card. Their geographical location is detected from their phone and after a little service charge, the money is sent to a registered credit card number or a PayPal account.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Makes it easier to create and use gift cards.
• Lets you select up till 3 different places for a single card.
• Sends money to credit cards as well as PayPal accounts.
• Similar tools: Cardnap, CardHub Gift Card Exchange, Snoopf and CardPool.

Check out Giftly @ www.giftly.com (via Gigaom) (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Giftki is a free to use web service that lets you gather funds with your friends to buy one big gift. Although there are similar sites on the web offering the same service, what makes Giftki attractive is its donation limitation: friends are limited to keeping their funds contribution within $10. This way nobody feels left out for contributing too little because the highest possible amount per friend would be $10. Other features of the site include letting you write messages for the gift recipient – these messages are publicly viewable. All the money is delivered straight to the friend whom you are buying the present for; he can then have the money transferred directly to his American Express card or transfer it to gift card of one of Giftki’s partners.

In the near future, Giftki plans to launch its iOS application.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service
• Lets you gather funds with friends for presents
• Has a fund donation per person limitation of $10
• Lets recipient decide what to do with the money
• Similar tools: SocialGift, SimplePresent, WouldTheyLike, eBay Group Gifts, PresentBee, Wraply, FromABirdie, Webgiftr and Lottay.

Check out Giftki @ www.giftiki.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

You can create a gift event and then invite as many people as you want to contribute to the gift. You can choose the gift yourself from thousands of products offered, or let everybody vote. People can contribute using their credit card or PayPal accounts. Once selected and paid for, the gift can be shipped directly to the recipient or the organizer.

Since SocialGift offers so many products, you can also create a custom gift basket by combining multiple gifts.

Features:

• Give a gift the social way by inviting friends to contribute.
• Contribute through credit cards or PayPal.
• Combine gifts into a custom gift basket.
• Similar tools: SimplePresent, WouldTheyLike, eBay Group Gifts, PresentBee, Wraply, FromABirdie, Webgiftr and Lottay.

Visit SocialGift @ www.socialgift.com

Whimventory is a free to use web service that lets you maintain an online wishlist. After you create an account on the site, you can drag the site’s bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar. Use this bookmarklet anytime you are at an online store that lists something you want – it works best with Amazon.

On your desired item’s page, click on the bookmarklet and a small window will let you add the item to your wishlists. In case you have created multiple lists you will be able to select which list you want the item saved in.

When you visit your wishlist you can quickly filter items according to price, mark items as purchases, and compare their prices online.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you maintain an online wishlist.
• Adds items to your wishlist through a browser bookmarklet.
• Makes your wishlists shareable.
• Similar tools: Wishlr, Wantz.it, PresentBee, AmazonUniversalWishlist and Savvy Circle.
• Also read related article: 7 Online Wishlists to Help You This Holiday Season.

Check out Whimventory @ www.whimventory.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)