AWS News Blog
Category: Uncategorized
BookScout 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.
aytozon – 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 […]
Data on Billions of Sites Made Available
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 .
AWS Event Calendar Updated – 4 New Events
A new version of the AWS Talks and Chats Calendar has been posted, with details on 4 new talks by Amazon’s Jeff Barr.
New Release of Associate-O-Matic
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 […]
Updated Link for Amazon India Jobs
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 .
Behind the Scenes at Microsoft, A9, and Amazon
Microsoft’s IE blog is reporting on the behind the scenes efforts which lead up to the recent announcement that IE7 will support A9.com’s OpenSearch interface. You can read even more about this on the A9 blog. While this is not directly related to AWS, it is a perfect example of how open standards (e.g. XML […]
Amazon at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference
The Amazon Developer Relations team is currently on site at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, California. If you are at the conference, please feel free to stop by and say hello to the AWS gang.