Amazon Launches aStore Beta

A new product was recently released by Amazon to its Associates network. The product allows less technical associates to easily create an entire online store using the extensive Amazon catalog. Amazon claims that …

SecretPrices.com writeup on the Amazon Web Services Blog

Jeff Barr over at the AWS Blog has posted a very nice writeup about SecretPrices.com and the Amazon perspective…
“True to the site’s name, there’s a list of secret deals and also a so-called “tag …

More New Amazon Mashups

John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com has posted some of the Best New Mashups that utilize the Amazon API. Worth taking a minute to check-out these innovations.
Amongst them listed is Frucall, a free phone service that …

Web Services + hReviews = Trouble

My brother thoroughly enjoys picking apart the flaws of the Internet. We often don’t really see eye-to-eye on a wide-range of topics, but this time he has written a piece that has caught my …

New Amazon Mashups and Starter Toolkit for .NET Amazon ECS Developers

There has been several new mashups using the Amazon ECS recently.
Here are some of them (information from ProgrammableWeb):

The Amazing Baconizer
Connecting a million popular culture dots via the Amazon API. Describe two items and see …

Buy.com Web Services – Where?

I check the blog traffic stats here every so often to see where people are coming from, and what they are searching for. One group of keywords imparticular caught my eye today. A user …

Amazon AWS and Microsoft Developer Contest Winners

Last Monday the winners of the AWS / Microsoft contest were announced.
The following criteria was used during the juding of the winners:

Creativity
AWS service integration
Commercial appeal
Fit and polish

The winners and the respective pages:

Lucy Krasilshik – My …

The Next Generation of Deal Sites – The Deals and Shopping Comparison Hybrid

For as long as I can remember, deal/bargain sites like DealCatcher, and comparison shopping sites, like PriceGrabber, remained separate entities. Being a true online bargain hunter meant monitoring deal sites like a cop visits Dunkin …

Amazon Web Services Launches Developer Connection

Amazon recently launched a developer connection site that has:
“Lots and lots of developer-oriented information including code samples, technical documentation, and release notes, all organized on a per-service basis.”
It also features a community environment …

More Price Comparison Web Services

Well I am not really sure if I would classify this as a web service…
Jeff Barr over at Amazon had a blog post about a price comparison web service that I had never heard of.  …