Author: Jeff Barr

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.

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 […]

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 […]

DevX.com has published an article with information about this week’s production release of the Alexa Web Information Service: Data on Billions of Web Pages Made Available .

A new version of the AWS Talks and Chats Calendar has been posted, with details on 4 new talks by Amazon’s Jeff Barr.

Version 2.5 of the Associate-O-Matic store builder is now available. The new release features enhanced control of the home page (more formats including single item and browse node, additional tabs), direct support for mod_rewrite to aid in search engine optimization, reporting, and improved caching. Two versions of Associate-O-Matic are available. The full version lists for […]

Soapui is an open source Java 1.5 tool (with a Swing UI) for inspecting and testing SOAP-based web services. It supports WSDL importing, request generation, an unlimited number of requests per operation, multiple service endpoints for the same service, validation, three types of authentication, and background processing. (found on webservices.org)

The previously published link to the jobs page for the Amazon Development Center in Bangalore was incorrect. That link has been fixed. The proper page is http://india.amazon.com/openings.php .