Virtual Amazon Shopping

John Musser, August 17th, 2006
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Amazon’s Jeff Barr has an interesting post about shopping at the Life2Life store in the virtual world Second Life. The store blends the real and virtual by creatively building on the Amazon API and the Second Life API. In that virtual store you can search the Amazon catalog, discover items, add them to your cart, click the ‘Checkout’ button, and you’re taken straight to the regular Amazon checkout page.

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August 17th, 2006 at 2:57 am

Comment by: mashing-up the blogs

[...] Second life, le monde virtuel qui compte aujourd’hui plus de 300.000 « résidents », offre des possibilités d’interactions avec d’autres applications web. Il existait déjà un moyen de poser un tag del.icio.us sur des lieux particuliers avec Slurlmaker, il est maintenant possible de faire son shopping sur amazon avec Life2Life. [...]

October 24th, 2006 at 4:20 pm

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