Tag: Announcements

We’ve just rolled out the new AWS Developer Connection, featuring lots and lots of developer-oriented information including code samples, technical documentation, and release notes, all organized on a per-service basis. The new online community environment is browsable and searchable, so you can easily find what you are looking for. — Jeff;

We’ve just rolled out some enhancements to the Mechanical Turk API; the new API version is 2006-01-16. New features include the use of HIT Types to simplify the process of creating new HITs, better handling of reviewable HITs, the ability to update a Qualification test, and additional information provided to the Requester as part of […]

By law, every blog must have at least one cute picture of a dog or a cat, and here’s ours! We’d like to introduce Rufus, the newest member of the Amazon Web Services Developer Relations Team. Rufus is a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Today he has been diligently studying and practicing REST. When he’s a bit older […]

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I was traveling last week and didn’t have time to blog about the launch of the Alexa Top Sites service. Using this service, your application can retrieve sites ordered by their Alexa Traffic Rank. This data can be retrieved globally or on a per-country basis. Cost is just $.00025 per URL, or a quarter for […]

We updated the Mechanical Turk documentation over the holidays. The new version includes information on two new functions: The GetQualificationScore operation returns the value of a user’s Qualification for a given Qualification type. The UpdateQualificationScore operation changes the value of a Qualification previously granted to a user. We also clarified some of the information about […]

Five Alexa employees are now collaborating to produce the Alexa – Web Discovery Machine blog.

The popular TicTap product search tool is now available in XHTML form for mobile devices at http://www.tictap.com/xhtml .