Saturday, August 13, 2005
dealazon. Or I dare you to find Amazon.com's RSS feeds. No cheating.
Greetings fellow Amazon shoppers. Time for the treasure hunt. Without using a regular search engine or feed search engine (like Pluck's own FeedFinder), try to find if Amazon has RSS feeds. Go on. I dare you. I double dog dare you.
A quick glance or two at Amazon.com doesn't reveal much. No RSS/XML buttons. No links to feeds. Not much luck with auto-detection either. But, Amazon does have RSS feeds. Lots and lots and lots of them (I didn't want to count the number). You can see the incredibly well-hidden list of Amazon RSS feeds right here.
Impressed? Possibly overwhelmed. It goes without saying that we think RSS rocks, but sometimes too much of a good thing really is too much. So dealazon comes to the rescue, with a nice set of "best deals" RSS feeds + a tool to build your own categorically-based feeds. Dealazon's developer, Pete Freitag also provides a nifty "filler item finder," in case you need a little something extra to bump your order over $25 to qualify for free shipping.
This should be a dream come true for any Amazon.com shopping junkies, especially those interested in having the deals come right to them in their RSS reader.
**** Quick note - due to how dealazon puts together some of their feeds, in order to view/subscribe to their feeds from Pluck for IE or Firefox, you'll need to drag and drop the XML buttons into your folders. ****RSS Feed of the DayRSS feeds: just a few, you can see a bigger list here.
Hot deals - the most popular products on sale at Amazon.com
Newest Amazon deals
Website: http://www.dealazon.com/ more...
http://www.sebura.com
Originally Posted on 8/13/2005 3:03:33 PMContent source: http://pluck.typepad.com/feed_of_the_day/2005/07/dealazon_or_i_d_2.html
A quick glance or two at Amazon.com doesn't reveal much. No RSS/XML buttons. No links to feeds. Not much luck with auto-detection either. But, Amazon does have RSS feeds. Lots and lots and lots of them (I didn't want to count the number). You can see the incredibly well-hidden list of Amazon RSS feeds right here.
Impressed? Possibly overwhelmed. It goes without saying that we think RSS rocks, but sometimes too much of a good thing really is too much. So dealazon comes to the rescue, with a nice set of "best deals" RSS feeds + a tool to build your own categorically-based feeds. Dealazon's developer, Pete Freitag also provides a nifty "filler item finder," in case you need a little something extra to bump your order over $25 to qualify for free shipping.
This should be a dream come true for any Amazon.com shopping junkies, especially those interested in having the deals come right to them in their RSS reader.
**** Quick note - due to how dealazon puts together some of their feeds, in order to view/subscribe to their feeds from Pluck for IE or Firefox, you'll need to drag and drop the XML buttons into your folders. ****RSS Feed of the DayRSS feeds: just a few, you can see a bigger list here.
Hot deals - the most popular products on sale at Amazon.com
Newest Amazon deals
Website: http://www.dealazon.com/ more...
http://www.sebura.com
Originally Posted on 8/13/2005 3:03:33 PMContent source: http://pluck.typepad.com/feed_of_the_day/2005/07/dealazon_or_i_d_2.html
