Amazon.com Web Services

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"To help stimulate Web service innovation, we now offer software developers the opportunity to integrate Amazon.com features and content directly into other web sites using either SOAP or XML over HTTP. [....] Search for Amazon.com products using virtually any parameter that you can think of [...] Add items to the Amazon.com shopping cart, wishlist, or wedding registry directly from your own Web site".

Great! Paul Bausch created BookPost ("a Web tool that helps with putting together a weblog post about any book", see also Mockerybird's Book Watch), Jason Kottke mentions that Jeff Bezos attended the O'Reilly's Emerging Tech Conference, and Aaron Swartz finds it "[o]bviously inspired by Google". Now where do I find the time to use it on SciFan?

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