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Shopping Star
Shopping Star is a complete desktop shopping application. The product supports browsing through all 6 ECS-enabled Amazon sites, includes a price tracking function, and allows for the creation of private libraries. Install the Java 5.0 runtime environment and then start Shopping Star by clicking here.
Read MoreAmazon ECS.Net Library
AmazonECS.Net is a free, open source .Net library. The library was used to build the DVDs Universe site. Classes are provided to represent many ECS search and lookup operations including requests for item details, new releases, browse node children, browse node paths, similar items, top sellers, and the shopping cart. The site also includes demos […]
Read MoreCoverPop.com – 1000 Amazon Products on One Page
Krazy Dad Jim Bumgardner has managed to squeeze up to 1000 Amazon products into a single dynamic web page, and he has called the result Cover Pop. What’s more, he has individual pages for a number of product categories including Horror DVDs, Cult Movies, Classical Music, Drums, and Guitars (who knew there were so many […]
Read MoreASP.NET Media Share Library Starter Kit
MSDN recently published ASP.NET Jumpstart: Introduction to the Media Share Library Starter Kit, a 23 page article on the use of ASP.NET, Visual Studio 2005, and the Amazon E-Commerce Service to build a complete tool for personal media management.
Read MoreAmazon Historical Pricing Service Released
The Amazon Historical Pricing web service gives developers direct, programmatic access to over three years of actual sales data for books, music, videos, and DVDs sold by third-party sellers on Amazon.com. Third-party sellers can use this data to make pricing decisions based on historical prices and market trends. Access to this data costs $499 per […]
Read MoreBookScout PRO – Amazon Book Pricing on Your Cell Phone or PDA
The BookScoutPRO application allows professional book scouts to get realtime pricing information for books, CDs, videos, and more using a web interface or any WAP-compatible mobile device. The application is easy for beginners to use, with a full range of advanced features for more experienced users. Free to start, and $7.99 per month to use.
Read MoreNing Does Amazon!
The freshly released Ning application environment includes a set of APIs to access AWS. The API is rather lean and mean at the moment — it includes ItemSearch and ItemLookup calls, along with some methods for dealing with search results of various types. You will need developer-level access to Ning in order to find and […]
Read Moreaytozon – Comparison shop across Amazon and eBay
John Krystynak recently released his newest creation, Aytozon.com . By using the APIs provided by Amazon and eBay, Aytozon performs parallel searches on both sites, unifies the results, and presents them in side by side fashion for comparison. The search results are quite interesting. The screen shot at right (click for a larger view) shows […]
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