Imagine if I can have all pleasures of window shopping without stepping out of my warm and cozy home. Not having to worry about the cold winter or always-increasing-gas-prices or even wasting my precious energy.
Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com. You can use the power of your fingers (and arrow keys) to move and browse through best-selling Amazon.com products in different categories. Even see a cool preview of a movie or listen to a sample MP3 song by just hitting the space bar on the keyboard. You have to see it to believe it.
The tool shows all best-sellers and new releases in Books, Music, Video, Video Games categories. Also, there is a very interesting chronological aspect that drifts the older content slowly to the right as new fresh content is pushed every Tuesday!
Let me tell you why I am excited about windowshop.com. It's because Amazon's Windowshop is fully powered by Amazon S3. All the high-quality media, audio, images are served hot from Amazon S3 and at lightening speeds in real-time. Now that's cool!
-- Jinesh
"Gas-free"? Mhhh, you're right: *don't* press the buy now button 'cause that'll cost tons of gas to ship the product across the continent to you. Instead, visit your local retailer and stay green ;-)
(Sorry Jinesh, I couldn't resist, the windowshop is cool anyway!)
Posted by: Thorsten - CTO RightScale | October 24, 2008 at 10:38 PM