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GiftList update: monetization rears its ugly head

Dec 16, 2006
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Tonight I made another major update to GiftList. You could call this phase 2 of the Amazon integration project. As you can see from the screenshot, GiftList now (gently) suggests when you claim a gift request that you purchase it from Amazon. If they do, of course, GiftList gets a cut via Amazon's affiliate program.

GiftList: barbarians are at the gates

Hopefully GiftList users won't revolt and start a petition as a result of these changes. I'm trying to strike a balance between encouraging Amazon, but not requiring it. And using the power of guilt, of course.

Anyway, the reaction of the GiftList user community should be interesting. Fortunately most of the people in my familiy are economists, so they are more culturally amenable to this kind of thing than others might be.

New tech book

Dec 1, 2006
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The Web Developer's Guide To Amazon E-Commerce Service: Developing Web Applications Using Amazon Web

Jason Levitt

I just bought this in an effort to learn how to add Amazon integration to GiftList.net, particular how to import Amazon.com wishlists, which is one of our most demanded features. I would also like to be able to allow people to search Amazon from within GiftList, and easily get Amazon product metadata and image links kind of like the way Vox does. So far the book seems pretty good--it's not the most prettily formatted tech book I've ever read, but it's readable and the code samples are not hard to follow.

So far what I've gleaned is that one major choice you have to make is whether to use REST or SOAP to call the Amazon web services. It seems for my purposes that REST may be the way to go since it involves less overhead. Anyone on Vox have an opinion on this subject?