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The Alexa Web Search Platform is now accepting applications from potential beta testers. The Alexa Web Search Platform allows you to write and run code that runs on a server complex hosted and run by Alexa. To use this service, you write code which calls the Search Platform API. Your code is responsible for processing […]

Amazon’s E-Commerce Service (ECS) is in the running for a Reader’s Choice award from the Web Services Journal in the “Best Web Services Platform” category. To see how we are doing or to cast your vote, please click here.

If you can read and write French and English, today is your lucky day. Bitporters Media is now qualifying Mechanical Turk Workers to handle translation and approval HITS. The former pays 40 cents for up to 512 characters of text; the latter, 30 cents. — Jeff;

Since the beta launch of the Amazon Mechanical Turk last month, members of our developer community have been working hard to encode their HITS (Human Interface Tasks) into the system. One of the first to make it to this point is the Casting Words site (itself still in beta). Casting Words uses the Mechanical Turk […]

DevX.com has published a new article, Creating Windows Starter Kits for Visual Studio 2005. The starter kit described in the article happens to call ECS to do book lookup. You can find more starter kits, including an Amazon-powered Movie Collection application in the Visual Studio Developer Center.

Bob DuCharme has put together a master list of his Transforming XML columns. Bob is also the author  XSLT Quickly, shown at the right.

Things have been even busier than usual here at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. On the evening of Wednesday, November 2nd, we announced that Amazon’s Mechanical Turk was ready for beta testing. Momentum for most beta tests builds quietly at first. A few users and developers put a toe or two into the water, give it […]

We have some new job openings on the ECS team. Follow the links to learn more and to apply: Software Development Engineer Technical Program Manager Marketing Manager Product Manager Update (2016) – This post is ancient but still attracts some attention. Check out our list of AWS Jobs for current job openings.

The A-Tree uses AJAX technology (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) to show the Amazon product catalog in a live, clickable outline. Each click opens up another level of the tree without the need to refresh the page. Products are shown in a popup, again with no need for a page refresh.

Amazon’s Jeff Barr was recently interviewed by Chris and Josh of the Web 2.0 show. The result is available as a podcast (which is really just a 13MB MP3 file). Jeff covers a wide range of web services topics in this 27 minute interview.