Author: Jeff Barr

Many people  find WSDL (and the new WSDL 2) to be hard to create, and hard to use, even with tools and other high-level support. Tim Bray of Sun has been talking about Replacing WSDL. Candidates include Norm Walsh’s NSDL and Tim’s own SMEX-D. It is premature to talk about any Amazon support for these […]

Dealazon has just released their Amazon Dashboard Search Widget for the Tiger release of Mac OS X: The Widget supports 6 Amazon locales (US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, and Canada) and is available now as a free download.

Jesse Andrews has built Book Burro, a Firefox extension to display competitive pricing information for books. The information is presented in an inobstrusive, semi-transparent popup window. In order to install this you will need Firefox and Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey allows your browser to run client-side scripts against any web page. Think of it as local post-processing […]

The Simple Queue Service has been updated with performance and bugs fixes, most of it driven from the developer community that has helped shape it since its introduction in November, 2004. The Amazon Simple Queue Service Beta 2 provides a means for web service applications to quickly and reliably queue resources generated by a component […]

Microsoft has released the second beta version of the “Whidbey” version of Visual Studio 2005. Free downloads of the Express Editions are available for web development, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, SQL Server, and Visual J#. To make it really easy to get started with Whidbey, you should also investigate the Amazon-Enabled Movie Collection […]

Concord USA has developed and released, free-of-charge, an Amazon course item module for colleges and schools that use the learning management system from Blackboard Inc. This module allows course developers to include books and other items from amazon.com in their Blackboard online courses. Here’s how they describe their product: The easy-to-install Concord Masterfile software module […]

The Home Theater Thoughts site uses ECS product data to provide a rich, targeted shopping tool for consumers interested in purchasing equipment for a home theater.

Indigo is Microsoft’s next-generation web services platform. Here is an article (in Japanese, but with C# source code) with information on how to make ECS calls from Indigo. You may also enjoy reading the new article, Preparing for IndigoChoosing the Right Technology Today on devx.com.