Comments on: IDEA #22 – Amazon.com Social Networking http://blog.stevepoland.com/idea-22-amazoncom-social-networking/ web entrepreneur | obsessed music fan | b-lo forever! Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:32:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: » 100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas - By Steve Poland - web startup ideas and brainstorms, straight up! (formerly Techquila Shots) http://blog.stevepoland.com/idea-22-amazoncom-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-16702 » 100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas - By Steve Poland - web startup ideas and brainstorms, straight up! (formerly Techquila Shots) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:47:05 +0000 http://stevepoland.com/?p=82#comment-16702 [...] IDEA #22 - Amazon.com Social Networking [...] [...] IDEA #22 – Amazon.com Social Networking [...]

]]> By: Frank http://blog.stevepoland.com/idea-22-amazoncom-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Frank Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:03:26 +0000 http://stevepoland.com/?p=82#comment-155 Seems like a good idea, and Amazon was actually working on that internally from what I heard. They had created a stealth group to research creating a social network with their users/data, but that group was disbanded about a year ago. Seems like a good idea, and Amazon was actually working on that internally from what I heard. They had created a stealth group to research creating a social network with their users/data, but that group was disbanded about a year ago.

]]> By: Joe Suh http://blog.stevepoland.com/idea-22-amazoncom-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Joe Suh Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:35:21 +0000 http://stevepoland.com/?p=82#comment-156 We're toying with the AWS API now to incorporate book reviews and (affiliate) picture links to Amazon's database. The idea is similar - let our social network users find others within our SNS with similar book interests. But in our case, our users' identities are not correlated with Amazon's users' identities. They don't log into Amazon. I'm actually unsure if someone can "claim" their Amazon login via the API. I would assume its robust enough to accept login credentials, but haven't tried or seen an implementation We’re toying with the AWS API now to incorporate book reviews and (affiliate) picture links to Amazon’s database. The idea is similar – let our social network users find others within our SNS with similar book interests. But in our case, our users’ identities are not correlated with Amazon’s users’ identities. They don’t log into Amazon.

I’m actually unsure if someone can “claim” their Amazon login via the API. I would assume its robust enough to accept login credentials, but haven’t tried or seen an implementation

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