Wed, 05 Sep 2007
I've created a new site at http://bookne.ws
that searches blogs and Google News for references to books in an
Amazon Wishlist.
It uses Amazon's
E-Commerce Web Service to find a wishlist
by name or email address, and to retrieve the list of books on a wishlist.
Then it uses Yahoo Pipes to search for news for each of the book titles and
sort the results by date. Finally, it takes the results and replaces the book
titles and authors with links to pages that will return results for an
individual book or author. It also uses Freebase, a sort of structured Wikipedia, to
retrieve a short description of on author pages where they exist.
Every page also provides an RSS feed of the results that are returned.
For example, if you use my wishlist of mostly economics books (which also
happens to be the default list used at the bookne.ws homepage), you might
see an except and link to an article
about Nassim
Taleb's Fooled by
Randomness, one of the books on my list.
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