Author: Jeff Barr

This is cool, and a little bit different! Smarkets.net allows registered users to buy, sell, and sell short imaginary shares of Amazon products. The share price is based on the product’s current sales rank. As the product’s rank climbs closer to the top (#1), the price also rises. It is possible to bet on a […]

We updated the Mechanical Turk documentation over the holidays. The new version includes information on two new functions: The GetQualificationScore operation returns the value of a user’s Qualification for a given Qualification type. The UpdateQualificationScore operation changes the value of a Qualification previously granted to a user. We also clarified some of the information about […]

ZapThink has published a new version of their SOA Roadmap Poster. There’s a free download (registration is required), or you can simply buy 10 copies of the poster. For the acronym-impaired, SOA is short for Service-Oriented Architecture! — Jeff;

The GiftOrNot site makes personalized recommendations based on several different criteria including age, gender of the giver and the recipient, and budget.

The new Amzlists site allows any registered user to create a list of interesting Amazon products and then share the list with friends and with the world at large. The list’s creator can also earn money using the Amazon Associates Program.   Modified 10/23/2020 – In an effort to ensure a great experience, expired links […]

The good folks over at the .Net Adventures blog have posted some .Net sample code to illustrate the process of signing an AWS request. This code should make it just a little bit easier for .Net developers to create the next great Mechanical Turk or Historical Pricing application. Update: There’s also an Active X control […]

J. Shamsul Bahri at Jiboneus.com is playing with ECS and has created the Jiboneus Cover Art application. Enter the name of an artist, and the application will display the cover art from each of the artist’s album.

As a followup to yesterday’s transcription post, I thought that it would be helpful to walk through the entire process of submitting a podcast to Casting Words and getting the results back. If you want to try this service yourself, you’ll need two things the URL to an RSS feed which contains one or more […]