Another piece of news everyone pointed to yesterday: Amazon is now offering RSS feeds. A list of all their feeds can be found at the Amazon.com Syndicated Content page. Looks like they’re offering feeds for each top-level category in their hierarchy. The next logical step, of course, would be to offer a personalized RSS feed of your recommendations…
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What’s funny is I bed Chris at Lockergnome is pissed — he created and distributed Amazon RSS feeds about 6 months ago, at least. The trick was he was making money off them, as he had put lockergnome’s Amazon referal code in there, so I’m sure he made a few bucks on that stuff. Now that amazon’s doing it themselves, he’s probably a bit miffed.
http://lockergnome.com/channels/amazon.phtml
Interesting. Any ideas on how many people were using his feeds?
You can create customized Amazon RSS feeds with a little Web App I wrote to do it, here:
http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/AmazonRSS.asp
Also, the RSS just uses Amazon Web Services, so you could create your own feeds by learning how their API works.