Amazon 2 Second Life
I promised at Supernova I would give an update on the integration of Amazon.com (through Amazon.com E-Commerce Web Services) into Second Life: Jeff Barr has the scoop and demonstrates it on the Amazon Web Services Weblog. As expected it was a complete grassroots effort with no official Amazon involvement. Go visit the life2life store now (yes that is second life url, you need the program installed to use this as a locator).
And as Jeff mentions there is some really cool second life style interface innovation: you can talk to store and a search on Amazon will be triggered. Go try it out!
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Werner,
We had a chance to talk briefly at Gnomedex about a separate project (from life2life) that I was working on doing with AWS and SecondLife.
I run Second411 - http://www.second411.com - which is a search engine inside of SecondLife which I've extended to search Amazon as well.
It brings back results and then will load the corresponding Amazon product page from SecondLife.
Jeff wrote about it here:
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/07/amazon_search_i.html
NWN article and screenshots here:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/07/amazon_inside.html
This is just the beginning of a wave of web services integrations that will be coming to SecondLife.