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April 17, 2006Get Product's Environmental Information With Greenscanner
The University of California has announced Greenscanner, a site designed to be used by mobile devices to get environmental information about products just from providing a UPC number. Greenscanner is free and available at http://www.greenscanner.net/. The site really was designed...
Continue reading "Get Product's Environmental Information With Greenscanner" » December 04, 2005Amazon Gets Wikified, Adds Discussion Groups
Amazon, you're driving me crazy. You don't have a blog and I can't get any of your PR people to answer e-mail. So when I find really nifty things like the Amazon Wiki that seems to be happening, I can't...
Continue reading "Amazon Gets Wikified, Adds Discussion Groups" » November 11, 2005eBay to Generate RSS Feeds for Stores
eBay has announced that its stores will now have RSS feed functionality offered. The announcement is available at http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200511.shtml#2005-11-10143920. From the announcement: "If you're a Store owner who is interested in providing listings via RSS feeds, go to "Manage My...
October 14, 2005Put Your eBay Results on a Google Map
I haven't written about a Google Maps mashup lately, so what the heck. You can search eBay and map your results on a Google Map over at http://www.markovic.com/markovic.com/ebay/search.php . It's in beta. You have several search options for the eBay...
October 11, 2005See Amazon and eBay Results Side By Side
One thing I've been learning about a lot in the last six months is online sales -- a lot of eBay stuff, a lot of Amazon stuff. One thing I noticed immediately is how weirdly different some of the used...
Continue reading "See Amazon and eBay Results Side By Side" » September 25, 2005DiscontinuedItem.com Expands Directory
Earlier this month DiscontinuedItem.com announced the addition of 2,000 vendors to its database at http://www.discontinueditem.com/. DiscontinuedItem lists vendors by product or by brand. I browsed a little and while I was disappointed in their video games listing (they had GameFly,...
June 10, 2005Become.com Launches Their Own Suggestion Service
Become.com, last mentioned here in April, now has dynamic suggestions as part of their search. As you might remember, dynamic suggestions are suggestions that change in "real type" as you're typing in your search. Instead of a page refresh, the...
Continue reading "Become.com Launches Their Own Suggestion Service" » May 29, 2005Abusing Amazon Images
A gentleman named Nat Gertler has gone to astounding lengths to figure out the variables in the Amazon image URLs. And since I love a little URL hacking, I wanted to point you toward his explanations and examples at http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html...
April 27, 2005Become Officially Launches
Search engine Become.com ( http://www.become.com ) has launched its official shopping index. Because it seems to be focused on product reviews (as opposed to buying stuff), because it doesn't require registration, and because it's so huge (3+ billion pages), I'm...
November 09, 2004List of Shopping Bots
Marcus Zillman has a new list of shopping 'bots at http://www.shoppingbots.info/. Just a listing, not much annotation here. MAR-cus!...
June 09, 2004Chemicals In Cosmetics -- The Database
The Environmental Working Group has released a database of chemicals in cosmetics and personal care products. The site is searchable in a few different ways, with a "quick picks" links. It's available at http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep/browse_products.php . The site starts you out...
November 27, 2003CPSC Launches New Site For Recalled Items
I know you want to get out there and shop, but before you do perhaps you want to visit this site. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has launched a Web site for listing a variety of recalled consumer product...
Continue reading "CPSC Launches New Site For Recalled Items" » December 16, 2002Toy Recall Database
Just in time for Christmas, it's the Toy Recall Database at http://www.safechild.net/toyrecalldatabase/index.cfm . This site contains information on 350 major toy recalls issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission or toy manufacturers. From the front page you can search...
January 21, 2000Mortgage shopping
Search for Mortgage related information! http://www.AllMortgageSearch.com/...
November 17, 1999The Mother of all Shopping Directories
I usually don't cover shopping directories, because if I did it would take up the majority of my news. However, I had to note this one just because of its sheer size. WPBT has announced its Universal Commerce Directory at...
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