17 Jul 2002
Wed, 17 Jul 2002
Dave Winer Blogs Boing Boing on Amazon Light
Dave Winer at Scripting News: "Thanks to Boing Boing for the link to Amazon Light. A nice demo of the power of web services. A user interface for Amazon that's patterened after Google's. That's a good idea."
Amazon Light is a screamer - my new preferred interface to Amazon. Does Amazon envision it's front-end being usurped by the work of some wizardly SOAP developer? With Google, doing this kind of one-off was inconceivable, save for the command line, since Google was already taking the tastes great, less-filling approach. Since Amazon's front-end has gotten increasingly busy with the variety of merchandise it carries, there was a huge opportunity for somebody to do something like this.
What's interesting to me is the rate at which these applications are emerging this time around. With Google's SOAP API, it took a while for the developer community to wake up and realize what was possible. With the Amazon SOAP API, developers are on it so fast that it's just astounding. I thought I'd go home and do a few things but the stuff's coming out so quickly that by the time I have an idea, somebody's already implemented it. This is good.
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Have you gotten an 11% raise lately?
From the NY Times: Raise for Computer Associates Chief. At a time when the company's performance has been lackluster and the SEC is beating the door down, Sanjay Kumar gets an 11% boost from CA's rubber stamp board. I'm sure glad I sold the stock at $35. It can only get worse.
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