readwriteweb.com — Lately Amazon has been introducing a raft of 'web 2.0' features to its e-commerce website. In this post we explore how Amazon has implemented tagging, Ajax, blogs and wikis - and ask whether it's made much difference to the user experience, and to the bottom line.
Jan 25, 2007 View in Crawl 4
uberdorkJan 25, 2007
I just upgraded my Mac to Amazon Web 2.0, and it really feels snappier.
jer2eydevil88Jan 25, 2007
To give people an Idea of what people have tagged that album with one of the tags (used twice already) is "makes baby jesus cry".
joenewbreedJan 25, 2007
My favorites are "AKA Vogon Poetry" and "Hopi Indian"
se7en11Jan 25, 2007
Tags? Check out the user-submitted images on that product --> <a class="user" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B000IU3YLY/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_2/102-2723367-0014541?ie=UTF8&s=music&index=2#gallery">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B000IU3YLY/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_2/102-2723367-0014541?ie=UTF8&s=music&index=2#gallery</a>What's even more frightening is 6 out of 7 people found it helpful...
kur0Jan 25, 2007
Amazon.co.UK still looks like crap compared to .com...diod they forget about the UK or something?
hookemJan 25, 2007
odd that the article doesn't mention Amazon's newest site (ONLY Amazon products and FREE next day shipping). Pretty slick site, all Ajax driven: www.endless.com (and your amazon login works since it's an amazon owned company).
jbondJan 26, 2007
I wish Amazon would have a few more RSS/Atom feeds. There's a lot of information on the site that really doesn't need a custom API and XML schema, it just needs plain old RSS.
asnowDec 5, 2007
I think it is great that Amazon is evolving in the Web 2.0 wave. Change can bring growth and failure. The stock price will move in the future according to what this change brings. Give it time.