New Fees for Google Checkout
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Google announced today changes to their fee structure for Google Checkout. The new fees bring their service in line with Amazon Payments and Paypal as seen in the chart below:
Google announced today changes to their fee structure for Google Checkout. The new fees bring their service in line with Amazon Payments and Paypal as seen in the chart below:
FRBRizing Google
Thursday, October 16th, 2008(This is a followup on an old post about a similar project using Amazon's API) As I mentioned six months ago, one of the big things in the library world is FRBR which seeks to link all editions of the same book together. The OCLC offers their take on it as ...
FRBRizing Amazon’s Catalog
Monday, March 24th, 2008While doing research for a book data project, I stumbled on an interesting discovery. One movement that has being gaining steam recently among librarians and others involved with book information is FRBR which among other things seeks to link various editions of the same book together. For example, all of ...
Simple Solution for Amazon’s Web Services Reliability
Saturday, February 16th, 2008This past Friday a major 2 1/2 hour outage of Amazon web services hit the Internet. The blogs were abuzz with the gory details but the resounding scheme has been that it is not reliable enough yet. Being an Amazon AWS user as well as many others who visit their ...
Publishing web pages on Amazon’s S3 service
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006Amazon recently released their new S3 web service designed to cheaply store any kind of data. Some enterprising users have started using this for web hosting! Here is an example (and related blog post). [NOTE: That I do not necessary agree with the "content" of the example]
Amazon Associates Stats via RSS
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005Since adding Amazon ads to my blog, I have been looking around the Net for a way to track the Amazon referal statistics via RSS. The closest thing I found was this piece of code which retreives the XML version of Amazon reports. I wrote my own version of ...
BookChaser: an Ajax Book Search Engine
Thursday, May 26th, 2005A very long time ago (about five years) I had the bright idea of starting a new search engine like IMDB but for books. Eventually I purchased the BookChaser.com domain name and have held on to it ever since. At some point a bunch of people like me got together ...
