Listing items from an ecommerce site based on online friends with product association designations

An electronic communication device comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing instructions, that when executed by the processor;
• perform the steps of:
• retrieving a plurality of items from an ecommerce system;
• retrieving a plurality of contacts from a social media system;
• identifying a subset of the plurality of contacts with a current online status that have a product association designation for at least one of the plurality of items;
• associating one or more of the plurality of items with at least one contact from the subset of the plurality of contacts;
• generating a ranked list of the plurality of items, wherein the associated items from the plurality of items are ranked highest in the ranked list;
• and
• rendering the ranked list of the plurality of items on an electronic display.

A computer program product for presenting a representation of items, for an electronic computing device comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the electronic computing device to:

• retrieve a plurality of items from an ecommerce system;
• retrieve a plurality of contacts from a social media system;
• identify a subset of the plurality of contacts with a current online status that have a product association designation for at least one of the plurality of items;
• associate one or more of the plurality of items with at least one contact from the subset of the plurality of contacts;
• generate a ranked list of the plurality of items, wherein the associated items from the plurality of items are ranked highest in the list;
• and
• render the ranked list of the plurality of items on an electronic display.