AWS News Blog

The Amazon Development Center in Bangalore, India now has a blog!

Konfabulator is a desktop host for small, special purpose JavaScripts that are known as Widgets. The cool folks over at TicTap have released a free Konfabulator Widget with support for searching Amazon.com with a single click, sending information to a mobile phone using SMS, and searching for songs and podcasts. To use this widget, first […]

EVDB, the Events and Venues Database, has a very complete API. Each event and each category of events also has its very own RSS feed. There’s no integration with Amazon yet, but we’ll have to see what we can do about that…

  Photo: Phil H. Webber/Seattle Post-Intelligencer Microsoft’s Robert Scoble paid a visit to the Amazon office in Seattle earlier this week. If you are coming to this blog as a result of Robert’s blog entry, thanks for coming, and welcome. Robert interviewed Jeff Barr and Steve Rabuchin of the Amazon Web Services Developer Relations team. […]

Developer John Kern has developed DidUKnow, an AWS-powered application for the Nokia Series 60 Phone. DidUKnow features searching, a tabbed interface, and and detailed information on each matching product. John has made the product available for free downloading at http://kerncomputing.blogspot.com.   Modified 08/10/2020 – In an effort to ensure a great experience, expired links in […]

If you are trying to use the AWIS service in conjunction with VB.Net, you may find this sample program helpful.

According to a recent article (“Lack of Skilled Devs Slows Web Services”) in Integration Developer News, a lack of skilled developers is hampering the adoption of web services in the enterprise. Development managers are having a hard time finding people who understand the various specifications and the ways to build the interfaces. Based on a […]

TitleZ retrieves current and historic sales rank data for Amazon book titles, displaying trends in graphic and numeric form for each analysis and decision making. The product is targeted at publishers, acquisition editors, agents, marketers, and authors; it can be used to make competitive buying, selling, and publishing decisions. Learn more about how it appeals […]