Archive for July, 2009
Best Buy Remix API Update 7/22/2009
We have made a few updates, bug fixes and added an exciting new feature to the Best Buy Remix API today. The changes are as follows:
Updates:
- The <mobileUrl> feature has been updated to reflect a new format for m.bestbuy.com.
- We’ve changed our geolocation data to Bing Maps for Zip Codes. This should not affect any [...]
Best Buy Remix Documentation Update
Updates Docs
We have recently updated the docs section of the Best Buy Remix Portal.
Click here for documentation updates:
http://remix.bestbuy.com/documentation
New pages:
1.2 API technology: This section tells the uber geeks everything that goes into making the API tick
4.2 Using Search: This section is the explanation of our new beta search feature
4.3 Using Search Bias: This section is [...]
Best Buy Remix and Value Props
Creating Value with the API
We have seen a lot of chatter recently in the blogosphere about companies opening up their API’s in hopes to create value for themselves and for the developers working with the information. Laura Merling, has first hand experience working with API’s and explores value creation in this bog post titled [...]
Best Buy Remix – Portal Outage
Best Buy Remix Portal Outage This Weekend
Mashery is performing some upgrades to the portal software. As a result we may have partial outages to our site this weekend starting Saturday (7/11) at 8:00PM EDT to Sunday (7/12) 2:00AM EDT. An announcement will also be posted on our blog (http://remixblog.info) and if the downtime is any [...]
Affiliate marketing Tips & Resources
Best Buy Remix opened up it’s doors and officially took the beta tag off just a few months back while at South by Southwest 2009. Since then we have been collecting data from developers, expanding the API capabilities and listening to your requests. One of the needs that we have noticed among many of our [...]
Best Buy Remix API Update – July 1st, 2009
We have performed an update, added a new feature, and performed some bugfixes to the Remix API. The following is live as of July 1st.
Updates:
The way results are returned in large query responses has been changed. Previously you would receive a “too many results” error. If the first 100 results returned satisfy the query, you [...]
Two new iPhone Apps Powered by Best Buy Remix
There have been two new consumer based iPhone apps created in the last few weeks. The applications are called iBlueShirt and Best Buy Weekly Deals.
These links will send you to the download links in the iTunes store:
iBlueShirt
Best Buy Weekly Deals
iBlueshirt
In it’s first release by Sternberg Consulting LLC, iBlueShirt is like carrying around a Best [...]
