O'Reilly Network: Amazon Web Services API [July 21, 2002]
As soon as I get a good idea, I'm going to try to do something with this (I know, I said that when google released theirs, but I mean it this time).
My mom owns a used bookstore, and she uses a program that tracks all the books a certain customer has read. I think it'd be really neat to include the Amazon recommendation functionality into that program. To do it, though, I'd have to get in touch with the guy who writes the software my mom uses, and my guess is he won't want me messing with his program. Based on what my mom paid, he's doing plenty ok all by himself.