Amazon.com Launches Web Services. “We're putting out a welcome mat for developers — this is an important beginning and new direction for us,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “Developers can now incorporate Amazon.com content and features directly onto their own websites. We can't wait to see how they're going to surprise us.”
Among its many features, Amazon.com's Web Services will allow third party sites to search and display products from Amazon.com's web site, and enable visitors to those sites to add items to their Amazon.com shopping carts. Developers can access AWS through two industry standards: XML and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). [PHP Everywhere]