8/04/2005
RSS Inspiration
I know this is really weird, but I have emailed both Amazon with suggestions about what improvements I would like to see in the near future. Here is a copy of the email I sent them:
When you launch the new movie rental service, please consider, if you haven't already, including the following functionality -- rss Feeds For checked out and in the queue Movies so that I can know what movies are headed my way without receiving annoying emails all of the time. Another general suggestion -- I would also like to be able to easily buy items from amazon.de or amazon.jp. So, I want to be able to add items From those sites to my American shopping cart and pay with my credit card. Depending on the item, I might be willing pay more than at other places like Ebay because I really hate using EBay. Sincerely, JessicaI wanted to add the following comment, but I figured they would put out an API to allow you to create a web service: "Additionally, a web Service that delivers a picture and maybe a description of the movies or a movie that I currently have checked out." On a related note, I have an idea for a program that creates an rss feed for some google search. So, say you search a particular term all of the time to see if your site comes up under it, then this program will help you easily check changes to the search. Or yor could use the feed along with one of Google's advanced search capabilities to check the stock market or something.