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Use Your Instant Messenger To Query Amazon

Riaan van Schoor from InsideC has released a new Instant-Messenger based application, this one is for querying Amazon. To use it, just add 'amazon@insidec.com' to your list of messenger buddies (or if you use AOL, add 'InsideAmazon' to your list).

Here's a screenshot of the Amazon application in action:

One part of my brain says that this is just a toy, a gizmo, a gimmick, nothing more. But that's how a lot of great ideas look before they've really found their feet.


'Geert-Jan Thomas' on Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:34:32 GMT, sez:

Reminds me of Gopher.
Sort of an interactive command line browser.

Could have potential.



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