August 2006
Amazon Web Services : Alexa Site Thumbnail
The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service provides developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites. It offers access to Alexa's large and growing collection of images, gathered from its comprehensive web crawl.
May 2006
Consuming Amazon's Web API Directly with Javascript (via JSON and XSLT)
(via)Amazon.com's Web API is a cool piece of architecture, but one of its big limitations is the difficulty involved in getting Amazon's data straight to the browser.
Well, here's how to fix that problem (for Amazon.com's API at least), using Amazon's free XSLT transformation service, the JSON output format, and a bit of plain old javascript. The examples below show you how to use javascript (and a bit of XSL) to place live Amazon.com data - direct from Amazon's servers - on any web page.