Amazon opens up a microcosm :
Amazon opens up its data not only to customers, but also to competitors. SellerEngine makes software for competitors to help them in fixing prices for their items. Amazon now has a lot of influence on how the prices of new items are set, not only on the web, but also in the real world. RIAA Radar uses the amazon webservice to authenticate a song. Ipilot scans a barcode in real stores and gets the Amazon data on it. Gold-Stores seems to use the XML interface to allow the user to shop seamlessly at Amazon, yet use other payment mechanisms, such as Moneybookers, e-gold, E-bullion, Pecunix, and EvoCash, that Amazon does not directly accept. Clutter from Sprote Research use it to get icon images from the album covers/images that amazon has and put it in Itunes.
My wish is for an app that keeps track of the price change for an item and has the common stock market features. But the license states that amazons’ data cannot be stored for more than 24hrs with out their written consent. Back to screen scraping!!! Ebay has an api, but is for pay.
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