Money For Somethin’?
I’m a huge fan of the Amazon Associates program, notwithstanding my previous concerns that it seems unfair that someone can make more money in referral fees by linking to Amazon books than their...
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Amazon.com Downtime Cost
The web is aflutter with Amazon.com being offline for the better part of several hours – it got me and Boris thinking: just how much is this costing them? The answer is simple: about $33.96 in revenue...
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The Tales of Beedle the Bard Available for Pre-Order
Holy Hogwart’s, Dumbledore! Amazon.com is now accepting pre-orders for the latest J.K. Rowling yarn, “The Tales of Beedle the Bard”, due out December 4th. In 2007, Amazon had purchased one of only...
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“Security error accessing url” in Flash 9,0,124,0
It appears the April update of Flash Player’s security policies have some implications for Amazon’s web services. Per the release information, it appears that is is no longer sufficient to have a...
View ArticleSigning Amazon Web Service Requests in ActionScript
Amazon.com announced a change to its Product Advertising API requiring all requests after August 15, 2009 to be signed. I’d been meaning to update one of the Scannerfly example applications and the...
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