Tag: Cool Sites

There are a number of new features over at the AWS Zone: The three scratchpads (SOAP, REST, and Code) have been combined in to a single universal scratchpad. Support for France and Canada has been added. The international scratchpads now support code generation. Upgraded to use the newest WSDL (2005-03-23) and the new features therein. […]

The Amaztype application uses Amazon cover art to create a visual representation of any word, using titles which match that word. Very cool, requires Flash. Click on the background to zoom in, and hover the cursor over any cover to view more details.

Francis Shanahan has developed Zuggest, a novel approach to searching the Amazon catalog. Simply enter your query, and Zuggest will make a call to ECS every couple of seconds and update the display accordingly. Zuggest is an example of a so-called “Ajax” application, using a combination of asynchronous calls to ECS and direct processing of […]

The new ECS-powered dealazon.com site displays the best deals (products with the highest discounts) from a number of Amazon categories, including Electronics, Kitchen, Toys, Tools, Books, Music, DVDs,  and Jewelry & Watches. The site also offers RSS feeds for each type of deal. 

The ECS-powered Music Plasma site has morphed into the more powerful and more general Live Plasma. Music Plasma was used to search and browse the Amazon music catalog. Live Plasma builds on this to allow searching music and movies. It also features a multilingual user interface, a more interesting visual presentation (including product images), and […]

The AWS Zone now includes a code generator! The generated code provides a complete, ready-to-compile example of how to make a call to ECS. The generator now supports C#; other languages will be added in the future. Here’s all you have to do to generate some code for the ECS 4.0 ItemSearch operation: Visit the […]

The DVD-Sky site combines information gleaned from popular DVD rental sites with Amazon product data to offer a list of popular DVDs available for sale from Amazon. Of note is the fact that the site uses the detailed product information returned by version 4 of ECS to combine data for multiple  DVD editions into a […]

The ShopEdge program allows owners of any Smartphone (the site lists Audiovox SMT 5600, Motorola MPx220, Cingular  Samsung SCH-i600, Verizon Wireless  SP-i600 Smartphone, and the Sprint  Voq Professional Phone) to access the Amazon product catalog using a clean and simple user interface. Features include price checking, access to reviews, movie showtimes, and restaurant information. Free […]