Amazon Plog
Several blogs have reported that Amazon apparently added a new beta feature called Plog, which they define as a personal blog on their website. It sounds like a plog is mostly a different and slightly more up-to-date way of presenting recommendations to the user. On their website they list a few of the more popular blogs as examples, but to be honest I don’t see what their plog feature has to do with blogs. It seems to me like they are just trying to capitalize on the popularity of the blog scene.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get the blog link on my Amazon front page. It seems like this is only displayed to a limited set of users. Too bad since I would have been curious about this, but then again it doesn’t sound like I’m missing too much.
June 9th, 2004 at 6:31 am
This is a little off topic but I figured a post about Amazon was the best place to ask. I looked on your site for a normal “Contact Me” link or chat area but didn’t see one.
I read your post at http://e107coders.org/forum_viewtopic.php?3.3748 about an Amazon Plugin for e107 and was wondering if anything ever came of it?
Sorry for the off topic post.
-CorbinDallas
June 9th, 2004 at 10:35 pm
I appreciate your interest. Unfortunately, I stopped working on this when things got busy, and I never got around to picking it up again. I am still planning on finishing this up eventually, and I’d be happy to let you know when this happens. This may take a while, though… It might also be worth looking at other Amazon / PHP projects, as I would imagine that there must be a few similar projects out there by now and it may not be too difficult to convert some of these to e107 plugins.
June 10th, 2004 at 6:05 am
I definitely understand busy (i have a 3 yr old)
I’m new to e107 and php so I’m having fun finding stuff and learning.
I’ll do some digging around and see what I can find. Thanks for the reply.
-CorbinDallas