My Photo
E-Commerce Service
Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) exposes Amazon's product data and e-commerce functionality.

Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

Historical Pricing
The Amazon Historical Pricing web service gives developers programmatic access to over three years of actual sales data for books, music, videos, and DVDs.

Mechanical Turk
One of the best ways to understand Amazon Mechanical Turk is to complete a HIT and see what the experience is like.

Simple Storage Service
Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Simple Queue Service
Amazon Simple Queue Service offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers.

Alexa Thumbnails
All thumbnail images are accessible via web services, using SOAP or REST.

Alexa Top Sites
The Alexa Top Sites web service provides ranked lists of the top sites on the Internet.

Alexa Web Information Service
The Alexa Web Information Service makes Alexa's vast repository of information about the traffic and structure of the web available to developers.

Alexa Web Search
The Alexa Web Search web service offers programmatic access to Alexa's web search engine.

« Easy Access to Amazon Wishlists in RSS | Main | S3: a Tier 0 Web Service? »

RSS Talker: RSS-Powered Price Watching for Amazon Products

Rss_talker RSS is one of those fundamentally important technologies, something that we'll look back on in 10 or 15 years and wonder how we got along without it. Every day I see another interesting use for RSS, and I don't expect the rate of innovation to slow down any time soon.

Today's wonder is RSS Talker, a neat way to monitor product prices on Amazon.com. You can get a feed of the last 25 price changes across the entire site, or you can create a custom feed for any product that you would like to watch. You can also watch any Amazon wishlist in RSS form. This is very handy if you want to buy something as soon as the price comes down a little bit.

The generated RSS contains both the old and the new price, so that you can see the price change at a glance. Here's how this looks in BlogLines:

Rss_talker_change

Be sure to check out RSS Talker today.

-- Jeff;

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/183837/4500871

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference RSS Talker: RSS-Powered Price Watching for Amazon Products:

Comments

Nice job! I like the historic prices aspect. Very cool.

Not as well executed but RSS feeds is just one of the features of http://Baebo.FrancisShanahan.com

I seriously need some UI design help ;)
-fs

Post a comment

Comments are moderated, and will not appear on this weblog until the author has approved them.

If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In

May 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31