I've basically been trying to get some book/music links working on the Top Gun Interactive website so that we can have everything link through to Google or Amazon. I really tried for ages to get the google API working but it doesn't seem to like the more niche books (I appreciate that Google are having to deal with rights issues etc). So I looked at Amazon to see what they could provide.
It turns out that Amazon have an entire monetary system in place in terms of linking to their website. Amazon provide customisable widgets which for the moment I've managed to get working for both the "currently reading" and "currently listening" lists. It basically works as a way for Amazon to link back to their products and then you get a cut of the fees if you provided that link. I've signed up because at the moment all I wanted was to see how Amazons web solutions work (below) and then we can begin to build it and style it into the website.
There is still a lot of work to be done to the main website (this is literally down to Alex and I finding the time) but I think that as long as we continue experimenting with different solutions/APIs all over the web then we could actually end up with a really nice webpage.
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