Amazon Hacks is a collection of tips and tools for getting the most out of Amazon.com, whether you're an avid Amazon shopper, Amazon Associate developing your online storefront and honing your recommendations for better linking and more referral fees, seller listing your own products for sale on Amazon.com, or a programmer building your own application on the foundation provided by the rich Amazon Web Services API.Shoppers will learn how to make the most of Amazon.com's deep functionality and become part of the Amazon community, maintain wishlists, tune recommendations, "share the love" with friends and family, etc. Amazon Associates will find tips for how best to list their titles, how to promote their offerings by fine tuning search criteria and related titles information, and even how to make their store fronts more attractive. And the real power users will use the Amazon API to build Amazon-enabled applications, create store fronts and populate them with items to be picked, packed and shipped by Amazon. And just about anyone can become a seller on Amazon.com, listing items, deciding on pricing, and fulfilling orders for products new and used.

Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools

Computers & Technology

Bausch, Paul

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly Media

Yahoo! took the world by storm in the 1990s as a one-of-a-kind, searchable list of interesting web sites. But ten years later, it has expanded into a department store overflowing with useful and innovative tools and services-from email, blogging, social networking, and instant messaging, to news, financial markets, shopping, movie and TV listings, and much more. Today's Yahoo! keeps you connected with every aspect of your life and every corner of the Web.
Yahoo! Hacks shows you how to use, expand, personalize, and tweak Yahoo! in ways you never dreamed possible. You'll learn how to:
<ul>
<li>Fine-tune search queries with keyword shortcuts and advanced syntax</li>
<li>Manage and customize Yahoo! Mail, using it as your universal email client to access all your other accounts</li>
<li>Explore your social networks with Yahoo! 360, blogging your life, keeping up with friends, and making new contacts</li>
<li>Store, sort, blog, feed, track, and otherwise share photos with Flickr and RSS</li>
<li>Make My Yahoo! your Yahoo!, and personalize Yahoo!'s many properties</li>
<li>Roll your own Yahoo! applications with Yahoo! new Web Services API and Perl, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, or the programming language of your choice</li>
<li>Visualize search results and topics, mash up images from around the Web, and remix other web content</li>
<li>List (or hide) your site with Yahoo!, and integrate Yahoo! Groups, Messenger, contextual search (Y!Q), or other Yahoo! features</li>
</ul>
Whether you want to become a power searcher, news monger, super shopper, or innovative web developer, Yahoo! Hacks provides the tools to take you further than you ever thought possible.

Yahoo! Hacks: Tips & Tools for Living on the Web Frontier

Over two million registered Flickr users and counting have discovered the ease and fun of organizing their photo libraries, showing off their favorite pictures to the world, and securely sharing their private pictures with friends, family, or ad hoc groups. But Flickr's own plethora of intuitive menus, options, and features just scratches the surface. Flickr Hacks goes beyond the basics of storing, sorting, and sharing your photos to the much bigger playground of what's possible. Whether you're a beginner looking to manage your metadata and play with tags, or a programmer in need of a detailed reference of Flickr API methods, you'll find what you're looking for here. In addition to getting under the hood of some of the most popular third-party Flickr toys already in the wild, you'll learn how to: <ul>
<li>Post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphone</li>
<li>Mash up your own photos or others' public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notes</li>
<li>Back up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments too</li>
<li>Set random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaver</li>
<li>Geotag your photos and map your contacts</li>
<li>Download a list of photos and make a contact sheet</li>
<li>Make your own Flickr-style tag cloud to visualize the frequency of common tags</li>
<li>Build a color picker with a dynamic color wheel of Flickr photos</li>
<li>Feed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSS</li>
<li>Talk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP; authenticate yourself and other users; and build custom API applications</li>
</ul>

Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online

Arts & Photography

Bumgardner, Jim

Photography & Video

Everyone knows that Google lets you search billions of web pages. But few people realize that Google also gives you hundreds of cool ways to organize and play with information. Since we released the last edition of this bestselling book, Google has added many new features and services to its expanding universe: Google Earth, Google Talk, Google Maps, Google Blog Search, Video Search, Music Search, Google Base, Google Reader, and Google Desktop among them. We've found ways to get these new services to do even more. The expanded third edition of Google Hacks is a brand-new and infinitely more useful book for this powerful search engine. You'll not only find dozens of hacks for the new Google services, but plenty of updated tips, tricks and scripts for hacking the old ones. Now you can make a Google Earth movie, visualize your web site traffic with Google Analytics, post pictures to your blog with Picasa, or access Gmail in your favorite email client. Industrial strength and real-world tested, this new collection enables you to mine a ton of information within Google's reach. And have a lot of fun while doing it: <ul>
<li>Search Google over IM with a Google Talk bot</li>
<li>Build a customized Google Map and add it to your own web site</li>
<li>Cover your searching tracks and take back your browsing privacy</li>
<li>Turn any Google query into an RSS feed that you can monitor in Google Reader or the newsreader of your choice</li>
<li>Keep tabs on blogs in new, useful ways</li>
<li>Turn Gmail into an external hard drive for Windows, Mac, or Linux</li>
<li>Beef up your web pages with search, ads, news feeds, and more</li>
<li>Program Google with the Google API and language of your choice</li>
</ul>
For those of you concerned about Google as an emerging Big Brother, this new edition also offers advice and concrete tips for protecting your privacy. Get into the world of Google and bend it to your will!

Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finding and Using the World's Information

Calishain, Tara

Dornfest, Rael

Your Complete Guide to Creating and Maintaining Weblogs Weblogs offer an exciting new way to voice your opinions, share ideas with others, and help your business grow. Written by a team of weblog pioneers-the people who helped create Blogger and the MetaFilter community blog-this book shows you how to build, evolve and automate weblogs for personal and business use. We Blog begins with a complete overview of blog history, the different kinds of weblogs that exist today, and more. It further explains how to create, expand, and promote your own blog, from getting the most out of a variety of blogging tools and services to building a blog for business and expanding your audience through syndication. Packed with insider advice, practical exercises, and illuminating interviews, We Blog is your indispensable guide to the world of weblogs. Build Your Own Blog Today and Get Connected * Create your first blog in just a few minutes * Find out about team blogs and business blogs * Learn how to use six popular blogging tools * Make blogging even easier with an automated weblog system * Add a comment system to connect with your audience * Build your audience by promoting or syndicating your blog

We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs

Haughey, Matthew

Hourihan, Meg

wiley