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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.

Francis Shanahan has created Zollage. Zollage uses a target picture and a set of product images drawn from one or more Amazon.com product categories to create a clickable collage. The image on the right was taken from a collection of pictures on FlickR. Now visit the real Zollage of Jeff Bezos, and click on any […]

The ECS-Powered Givezilla site was built to provide Non Profit organizations with a simple interface into the Amazon Associates program to assist their fundraising efforts through their constituent’s online shopping activity through Amazon.com.  The Givezilla business model provides all the development and management resources needed for a Non Profit organization to participate in the Associates […]

From FTP Online, here’s a collection of 249 web services articles.

IBM’s XML Extensions for Java  integrates important XML technologies into the Java compiler, allowing for faster, more efficient, type-safe access to XML data structures. Here’s more information: The XML Enhancements for Java (XJ) project extends Java with first-class support for XML. In XJ, one can import XML schemas just as one does Java classes. All […]

Software Poetry has produced the ECS-powered Amazon Screen Saver. Here’s what they have to say: Our free Amazon Screen Saver starts by getting a list of popular books from a random category at Amazon.com. After showing these for awhile, it begins wandering through Listmania lists, following titles to discover something new every time it runs. […]