Best Buy Remix:
Interesting Remix API Queries!
Have you ever wanted to see what Remix could show beyond the examples in documentation? Did you ever think of a question like “Between two categories I’d like to know which is the highest selling” but didn’t know how to construct the query?
We’ve started to show things like this via our Twitter (@bestbuyremix). Periodically we [...]
Python and Ruby Wrappers for Best Buy Remix
I the last couple of weeks we have seen some new and updated wrappers for the Best Buy Remix API.
Premix
Premix is a python Wrapper written by Developer Thomas Bohmbach. This is an updated version and is compatible with Google App Engine. Updates include: (Taken from Thomas’ Blog)
Changes in this version includes updated tests, the [...]
API Archive Files Now Available!
In listening to a need of the Best Buy Remix Community, we now have API archive files available for use to our developers.
What is the purpose and use of the archives?
The archives are basically a snapshot in time of the data available in the API. You lose the real-time capability of making direct calls to [...]
API Documentation Updates
The team at Best Buy Remix has been listening to your concerns for better documentation. We have recently brought Bryan Brandau onto the team as a Technical PM to help us in our efforts to provide developers with full and complete documentation among other duties. Bryan has completed Product and Store Query information. (Links Below)
As [...]
Best Buy Remix Challenge
Recently, Best Buy Remix has teamed up with Top Coder to bring to you the Remix Challenge. The website, held at http://www.remixchallenge.com/ has all of the details. The first of many challenges is called the Computer Experience beginning Friday April 24th and ends on Friday May 1st. This challenge is an idea phase. The [...]
Circus Mashimus Winners Announced
This year Best Buy Remix participated as a sponsor for the Circus Mashimus event at SXSW. The event combined educational content about the open API’s of Best Buy, Ribbit, New York Times, and Billboard Magazine. The contest challenge was to create a mashup with at least one of the API’s. There were many developer entries [...]
The Premix Python wrapper for the Best Buy Remix API
Thomas Bohmbach and Premix
One of our goals here with the Best Buy Remix API is to help facilitate and grow community. Being a young API we feel that our community is growing quite well and we take pride in the interactions we have with the public and our developers. Today, I was able to have [...]
Holy cow, Slashdot!
The Finance and Commerce article got linked up by Slashdot, which is resulting in a notable increase in signups. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/26/2240255
More positive comments than I expected.
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Remix in the news
Two great pieces appeared online today, both about Remix.
First is an excellent article from Finance and Commerce about what Remix means to Best Buy.
http://www.finance-commerce.com/article.cfm/2009/01/27/Bestbuycom-seeks-wider-Web-footprint-Electronics-retailer-hopes-API-technology-will-boost-sales-and-
Second is a write-up on using Ruby and HTTParty to consume web services. Fascinating stuff.
http://www.ioncannon.net/ruby/91/using-ruby-and-httparty-to-consume-web-services-the-easy-way/
- Kevin
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Cool Product Look-up through the Twitter Tubes
Recently, developer Omar Abdelwahed has been working on a product look-up tool that combines the powerful Best Buy Remix API along wih the Twitter API. Omar has created an uber-cool application that allows you to look up items from the Best Buy product catalog using what he calls a ‘Twitter bot’. Here’s how to use [...]
