New web services to play with
There's a host of cool new web services that have just come online for developers to build on top of. First, Amazon's expanded their existing web services into the Amazon E-Commerce Service, which includes much more information than the existing version 3.0 of their web services platform, as well as more flexibility in retrieving results.
Also from Amazon is their Alexa group's Alexa Web Info Service, which gives programmatic access to the enormous (over 4 billion pages!) database of information that Alexa's captured, letting you access most of the information that was previously ony available through the Alexa toolbar.
And Paul Bausch, the author of Amazon Hacks, gives some more information on another collection of web services with a jungle-themed name: Safari Web Services. Created by O'Reilly Media and the Pearson Technology Group, Safari Books Online now offers an API to get access to the contents of their extensive library of technical books through a simple API. Not just information about the books, but even the text itself can be searched and retrieved.
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