Re:Amazon Killing Mobile Apps That Use Its Data
by robotron on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @04:44PM
(#692422)
I'm sorry but building your business on another business's data without explicit permission from them is just setting yourself up for this kind of thing.
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Re:Amazon Killing Mobile Apps That Use Its Data
by iamwil on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @05:04PM
(#692500)
It's kinda funny that in the 90's, "web masters" wanted search engine crawlers to ask for permission to crawl their site.
Right now, there's no economic advantage to sharing your data--especially in this case where Amazon is trying to protect its investment in the Kindle and its impending "App Store" for books.
Perhaps when we have a way for published data to benefit the publisher, we won't have stuff like this going on.
Re:Amazon Killing Mobile Apps That Use Its Data
by dazzawazza on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @05:15PM
(#692527)
To clarify a little the Delicious App does have explicit permission to use the data but only for the desktop version.
I work on a similar product (Beep My Stuff) and to be honest Amazon's data while far from perfect is the only real source.