- Amazon Light
Amazon Light is an alternate
user interface toAmazon.com built on theAmazon Web Services API . The site was developed by Alan Taylor, a former Amazon programmer, while he still worked for the company. [cite news
url=http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/14089/
title=Amazon: Giving Away the Store: Sometimes it makes sense to give away your core assets.
author=Wade Roush
publisher=Technology Review
date=January 2005
accessdate=2007-03-07] The site pays for itself through Amazon affiliate links.The website is intended to be a simpler and more efficient way to utilize Amazon.com and its features. It allows the user to search or browse Amazon's database of
books ,music ,DVD s, and VHS tapes, and add items into a list. The list is then used to add the items into the user's Amazon.com shopping cart where they can be purchased.Amazon Light originally used a layout which resembled the main page of the
Google search engine. [ [http://www.kokogiak.com/amazon/notgoogle.gifscreenshot of the original layout] ] In July 2002Google 's lawyers told it tocease and desist . [ [http://www.kokogiak.com/amazon/about.asp Amazon Light - about] ]Amazon Light 4.0 won the "Technical Achievement award" at the
South by Southwest Web Awards in 2005. [ [http://2005.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/ Web Awards winners] - south by southwest festivals 2005]References
External links
* [http://www.kokogiak.com/amazon/ Amazon Light main page]
* [http://www.kokogiak.com Kokogiak Media]
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=3435361& Amazon.com's Webservices API]
* [http://www.kokogiak.com/amazon4/ Amazon Light 4.0]
* [http://kokogiak.com/amazon_uk/ Amazon Light UK]
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