Author: Jeff Barr

Every Amazon wishlist now has an associated  RSS feed, as you can see in the picture at right. You can access the RSS via the standard orange button. The generated RSS makes use of Microsoft’s new Simple List Extensions.When used with an SLE-aware browser  or news reader, these extensions allow the wishlist items to be […]

Dr. Dobb’s Magazine recently interviewed Amazon’s Adam Selipsky about Amazon’s new S3 storage system in this podcast. Learn all about S3 in just 5 minutes. — Jeff;

We’ve been collecting links to stories about Amazon’s new S3 service in the new Developer Connection. — Jeff;

John Keyes has come up with Ten Ideas for S3 Applications. These are all great; thanks John! Feel free to post your own ideas as comments or in your own blog (if you do this be sure to send us a trackback).

Earlier today we rolled out Amazon S3, our reliable, highly scalable, low-latency data storage service. Using SOAP and REST interfaces, developers can easily store any number of blocks of data in S3. Each block can be up to 5 GB in length, and is associated with a user-defined key and additional key/value metadata pairs. Further, […]

If you need to create signed requests to AWIS or other Amazon web services and you are using JavaScript, this JavaScript MD5 code may be handy. Update: Adam Kennedy notes that there’s another similar module, Digest::MD5. This module is part of the JavaScript Archive Network (JSAN) – not to be confused with JSON, the JavaScript […]

We’ve just rolled out the new AWS Developer Connection, featuring lots and lots of developer-oriented information including code samples, technical documentation, and release notes, all organized on a per-service basis. The new online community environment is browsable and searchable, so you can easily find what you are looking for. — Jeff;

We’ve just rolled out some enhancements to the Mechanical Turk API; the new API version is 2006-01-16. New features include the use of HIT Types to simplify the process of creating new HITs, better handling of reviewable HITs, the ability to update a Qualification test, and additional information provided to the Requester as part of […]

Users of MrRat‘s venerable Amazon Products Feed can now add price comparison features using the services at Price-Compare.net . — Jeff;

Earlier today I spent some time using Hit-Builder.com and found myself very impressed with the site and with what I was able to accomplish. The site implements a complete, requester-oriented interface to the Amazon Mechanical Turk. Using Hit Builder, it is possible to create and issue a series of HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) with just […]