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Cloud Reliability (August 8, 2008) Would you like to take bets as to whether Amazon or Google have better reliability and safety than your local network service providers?

Amazon Shipping indicator (November 11, 2006) Amazon could help customers by showing them earlier if an item can be shipped for free.

My christmas deliveries (December 12, 2005) Items ordered at Christmas weren't shipped smoothly, but everything worked out okay.

Tagyu API ideas (October 10, 2005) Some mashups you could create with the Tagyu API and some other web services APIs.

Olympus cameras on sale (June 6, 2004) Last year when I was looking at digital cameras, I nearly bought an all-weather Olympus. Now Amazon has it and all their other Olympus cameras on sale.

Amazon Elephants (February 2, 2004) In which strange patterns emerge in my Amazon Associates account.

XHTML Services? (January 1, 2004) Jon Udell says that intranets should abandon Web services like SOAP and REST in favor of screen scraping XHTML. Hogwash.

Amazon Reactivated (December 12, 2003) Amazon did activate my new phone, it just took them a week to do it. Now I have two accounts.

Be yourself (June 6, 2003) When does emulating Amazon's user experience become copying?

New MTAmazon forthcoming (May 5, 2003) A new version of MTAmazon will have some great new features. Filter BrowseNode and wishlist searches by keywords, search for items by price, and manage your customer's Amazon shopping cart.

Sorting Amazon (October 10, 2002) Amazon's backend is showing and they are revealing some interesting flaws in their system.

Better Amazon links (August 8, 2002) Earn a higher commission on sales through MTAmazon and provide a better experience to your users.

Goodbye BN.com links (August 8, 2002) What happens when you break links to your site and your competitor doesn't? Sites link to your competition instead of you.

MTAmazon 2.0 (July 7, 2002) MTAmazon is a Movable Type plugin that displays products from Amazon.com on your site. It allows flexible searching and display of products from any of Amazon's product categories. New in version 2.0 is caching, related products searching, and more tags for Amazon product information.

Amazon plugin (July 7, 2002) MTAmazon is a Movable Type plugin that uses your Amazon Associate membership to retreive products from Amazon. It allows flexible searching and display of products from any of Amazon's product categories.

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