Author: Jeff Barr

Business Week calls Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos the “Wizard of Web Retailing”. Read all about it at http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_51/b3913022_mz072.htm

Advanced ChatBot Solutions is now testing Halo, an animated, chat-based interface to Amazon.com. To start with halo, visit www.chatbots.co.uk and speak to Halo using the link on the left side of the page. Ask questions using queries like this: Who wrote TITLEHow much is TITLEGive me a review of TITLE If Halo is asking too […]

TrufSoft has released version 2.0 of Calillona, an application that allows users of Mac OS X to surf Amazon’s catalog from within a desktop application. We’ll let the press release speak for itself: Based on their previous Web services experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), TrufSoft initially developed a plugin for Apple’s Sherlock. Calillona 1.x […]

The clever guys over at ThinkTank23 have rolled out the newest release of their Blender product, available at http://blender.waypath.com. Blender analyses a “raw” RSS feed and returns a new feed with Amazon content inside. The Amazon Associates program is used to allow the feed owner to earn revenue from this content.  Blender implements an  80/20 […]

The Amazon Messenger is a special ‘bot which allows you to chat your way through any of the Amazon catalogs using the MSN Messenger application. The program is now in beta testing and the beta test is limited to the first 1000 users. Sign up now if you are interested.

At Planet XMLHack, they say that angle brackets are a way of life. The Planet XMLHack blog aggregates content from a number of luminaries in the XML world, including Adam Bosworth, Edd Dumbill, and M. David Peterson.

We’ve been conducting regular chats with the AWS developer community since the very beginning, way back in 2002. The chats give us a great opportunity to discuss issues with our developers, to answer their questions, and to solve their problems in real time. We also try to have fun while we do this. Today’s chat […]

AmazonBox has been recently upgraded to take advantage of Version 4 of ECS. AmazonBox lets a site owner place their Wishlist, a Listmania list or Marketplace Seller list on their website from either Amazon.com, .co.uk or .de. It is set up by using a form on the website, the appearance is configurable via CSS, and […]

We have a number of positions open on the AWS team: Senior Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services, #03-009644 Software Development Engineer – Amazon Web Services , #04-010075 Programmer/Writer, Amazon Web Services, #04-10051 Technical Product/Program Manager, Amazon Web Services, #03-009979 Sr. Financial Analyst- Associates and Web Services, #04-12566 Each job description includes an “Apply Now” link. […]

We fixed several issues with ECS 3.0 and 4.0 on Tuesday, November 23rd: Similarities should once again be available. Images that were not being returned correctly last week have been fixed. The major UTF-8 encoding issues that began occurring last Friday have been resolved. We’re still looking into a few problems, but the major ones […]