Author: Jeff Barr

Robert Scoble of Microsoft’s Channel 9 recently paid a visit to Amazon’s Seattle office to interview Jeff Barr and Steve Rabuchin of Amazon’s Developer Relations team. In this 19 minute video, you can see how developers are using Amazon’s Web Services in a variety of ways. You can also learn about the joint Amazon/Microsoft Developer […]

The most recent release of ECS adds a very powerful new feature — the ability to retrieve the best selling items associated with a particular browse node. Here is a sample call: http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Version=2005-07-26&Operation=BrowseNodeLookup&SubscriptionId=[YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_ID]&BrowseNodeId=1000&ResponseGroup=TopSellers You will need to insert your Subscription ID into this URL in order to see the results.

Update (October 2017) – The original link in this post is no longer functional. Please visit the newer Amazon Disaster Relief page to see how you can make donations that will be matched by Amazon. In order to alleviate some of the strain on the Red Cross web site, Amazon is hosting the American Red […]

Note: Date of Utah PHP User’s Group changed to 29th. Amazon’s Web Services Evangelists will be attending and speaking at a number of conferences, user groups, and trade shows in the upcoming months. Here’s what we have on the calendar for September and October. If you are in the area and can attend one of […]

Welcome to the inaugural UK AWS blog post, In todays post I thought I would talk about the internet, where we think we are going, and how Amazon web services fit in. As ever (with these thoughts), feel free to link to them in your own blogs. The internet is a kaleidoscope of ideas, it […]

In an article titled From Web page to Web platform, CNET talks about developments on the leading edge of the web services world, including mashups, Book Burro, and client-side scripting using GreaseMonkey. Modified 1/26/2021 – In an effort to ensure a great experience, expired links in this post have been updated or removed from the […]

The Amazon Development Center in Bangalore, India now has a blog!

Konfabulator is a desktop host for small, special purpose JavaScripts that are known as Widgets. The cool folks over at TicTap have released a free Konfabulator Widget with support for searching Amazon.com with a single click, sending information to a mobile phone using SMS, and searching for songs and podcasts. To use this widget, first […]