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

[Jeff B. <je...@ve...>]

This is awesome. Sales rank data actually changes very frequently. I have done some regression tests against catalog data, running
the old and new tests just minutes apart. I will frequently see changes in sales rank within this time window.

You do need to fix the URIs:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=webservices-20%26creative=D2W7SBNOI2U2ML%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2%26path=ASIN/B000
05AUGP

Change webservices-20 to your own associate id in order to get credit for purchases.

For extra sizzle, would it be possible to show old and new sales rank, and then indicate with an icon or a color the direction of
the change?

Jeff;

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Rifkin" <Ad...@Kn...>
To: "Asynch Messaging" <asy...@ho...>; "Scott Andrew LePera" <sc...@sc...>
Cc: <mod...@li...>; <me...@me...>; "Tommy Hui" <th...@Kn...>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 10:38 AM
Subject: RE: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable Amazon"


> This is a beautiful thing, Mike.
>
> Now, how can we give it some extra sizzle?
>
>    :) Adam
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Asynch Messaging [mailto:asy...@ho...]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 8:52 PM
> To: Adam Rifkin; Scott Andrew LePera
> Cc: mod...@li...; me...@me...
> Subject: Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable
> Amazon"
>
>
> I built a sample that periodically polls Amazon for the most popular books,
> music, movies, software and toys.
> It's not working completely... but its a start:
>
> http://www.topiczero.com:8000/kn_apps/amazonpop/
>
> The data isn't sorted (darn those amazon folks) and I have to do 4 requests
> that get chunks of 10 entries, and I'm not seeing anything on toys or music
> and the numbers probably won't change that often and the 'add comment' has
> the wrong colors and so on...
>
> I'll try checking in some code to sourceforge later tonite
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Rifkin" <Ad...@Kn...>
> To: "Scott Andrew LePera" <sc...@sc...>
> Cc: <mod...@li...>; <me...@me...>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:13 AM
> Subject: RE: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable Amazon"
>
>
> Number one, Meg I wish you were working at KnowNow still!  You are a font of
> great ideas!!!
>
> Number two, Scott this is a fantastic connection.  Please ask Mena and Ben
> to come play with us...
>
>   ;) Adam
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Andrew LePera [mailto:sc...@sc...]
> Sent: Fri 12/13/2002 8:28 AM
> To: Adam Rifkin
> Cc: mod...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable Amazon"
> Meg has more comments today:
>
> <http://www.megnut.com/archive.asp?which=2002_12_01_archive.inc#002348>
>
> "Another idea for mod_pubsub: real-time updates over at Weblogs.com.
>  From what I can tell, weblogs.com receives a ping when a weblog
> updates. It must store that info in a database or text file and then
> whenever the page loads, writes the list from that. Why not subscribe to
> its own pings and write them as they come in? Seems totally doable to me."
>
> I had a similar idea yesterday: Movable Type's home page has a list of
> "recently updated weblogs" which works essentially in the same way as
> weblogs.com (MT users send a ping to Moveable Type's server when they
> update).
>
> It would probably be trivial for Mena and Ben to add a line of code that
> forwards that ping on to a public router (like Joyce's machine or one of
> the upcoming KN machines). Then we could build a demo similar to the one
> Ev came up with for Blogger. Maybe we should ask them to come play with us?
>
> -- Scott
>
>
>
>
>
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