Author Archive
New Developer Portal Incoming!
If you’ve been following us for the past few months you know I’ve been working with TopCoder to get a new Developer Portal for everyone. I posted the test link previously and now we should be switched over this week!
I’ll post a larger explanation of the Portal functionality when it’s live so you can see [...]
Ford/Microsoft Sync API Coming?! How did I miss this?
While catching up on some news I came across this story on Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/ford-to-give-sync-some-app-store-flavor-opening-api-to-devs-in/
I think this is really interesting. I know a few people who have Sync technology in their car and they love it. I myself haven’t had a chance to play with it but the feature set is really interesting. Not to mention [...]
Best Buy Best Selling Widget. Test Version Live!
As I believe I’ve mentioned in the past, we’ve been working on starting a widget base. We heard feedback that we needed to somehow help our non-developer friends use the API to their advantage in conjuction with the affiliate program. Here is one way: The Best Buy Best Selling Widget.
The widget will show by category [...]
Check Out The New Portal: Give Us Your Feedback!
Remix Community,
As you may or may not know I’ve been working on getting us a new portal. Something with a little more expandability and functionality for you and for us.
Well, I have the site up for a preview. I’d like for you all to check it out and let me know what you think.
I’ve created [...]
Napster API Launched
As many of you may have heard today Napster has officially launched their API to the public.
Check out this article on Billboard Biz: Napster Opens Service To Developers
Thanks to those of you in the Remix community who helped us test the API recently! If you read the article and press releases about the API today, [...]
It Starts With an Idea
Forum user Pricedit recently posted on the Remix forum asking for success stories with the Remix API. Myself and Steve named off a few (ShopSavvy, Milo, CamelBuy, Google integration, etc). He mentioned he was looking for responses from fellow indie developers. You can follow the thread here.
Since it’s a good topic, I thought it would [...]
Pricing Issue Located and Solved Today (12/20)
Earlier today an issue resulting in some out of date prices was found. Remix was reporting no prices updated for today (12/20).
We worked through the day to narrow down the issue. Once the issue was found it took some time to re-publish the updates. The cache on our end was then cleared to ensure everyone [...]
What the Heck do All Of These Update Dates Mean?
For those of you that have actually played around in the API a bit (if you haven’t I highly encourage you to), you may have noticed that we have a multitude of update dates for various things in the API. I frequently receive questions about what they all mean, how are they different, etc. I’m [...]
Reminder: We Place Extra No Restrictions on Mobile Applications!
I’m not sure how many of you do or don’t know about this, but some other product based APIs out there make you ask permission to use their data on mobile applications or implementations.
I would just like to take the time to point out that we place no restrictions on using our data in mobile [...]
Products and Stores Archives Unavailable UPDATE(1&2)
Our Products and Stores API Archives are currently unavailable. The Store Availability and Categories Archives appear to be working correctly.
Updates will be provided as I receive them.
UPDATE 1: The archives are still unavailable. We currently plan on the archives being available by end of business today. Further updates will be provided when possible.
UPDATE 2: Archives [...]
