[Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable Amazon"

[Adam R. <Ad...@Kn...>]

http://www.megnut.com/archive.asp?which=3D2002_12_01_archive.inc#002341

I haven't had a chance to take a look at it yet, but KnowNow =
<http://www.knownow.com> (where I worked for a few months) has released =
under Apache-style license some of their technology =
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-pubsub>. Matt's got some thoughts =
<http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archived.blah/12/01/2002> about it.=20

A timely application I'd like to see with it is a page of Amazon's top =
selling items during this Christmas season, perhaps broken down in =
minute or 30-second segments. I.e. every thirty seconds, whatever sold =
the most items would appear on the page. I'm not sure whether this is =
possible b/c I haven't looked at what mod_pubsub actually does yet, and =
also because I doubt Amazon crunches and releases their data that =
quickly. I don't even know whether you can get the most popular items =
(updated hourly) via the Amazon API. But you get the idea. It could be a =
cool holiday gift tracker widget.