Amazon Hacks For Fun and Money

An anonymous reader writes "There's a new BusinessWeek article looking at some of the cool hacks coming out of Amazon's open API and XML feed policy. Some nifty stuff - 27,000 developers have apparently signed up to build hacks on Amazon data. It seems '..most are only part-timers and hobbyists, but a growing number are serious programmers who seek to make a living selling products based on the data Amazon is offering on a silver platter.'"

Comments

Re:The Mcdonald analogy

[Peridriga]

Imagine mcdonald wanting to be a better franchise and hired annoying teenagers to cause problems in and outside the restaurant to see how they can improve.

Somewhat off topic... But, imagine the fun of a job where McD's paid you to reak havoc in Burger King and Wendy's resturants :-P

I wonder what the interview for that job would consist of...

Use of "Hacker"

[Jonah Hex]

Nice to see the word "Hacker" used properly, to mean someone pushing the limits of X tech, as opposed to the usual "Hacker = Criminal".

For many years I've seen the negative responses, as a self-confessed computer hacker. Its only in the past few years I've noticed more recognition of the true meaning of hacker from people.

Jonah Hex

galeon crash

[ljoas]

I suppose everybody in slashdot uses IE/windows these days. That site crashes Galeon under Linux for me....

/L