Re: Friend of GNOME Amazon store

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 00:06, Stormy Peters<stormy gnome org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
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>> Number 1 we can over come by asking people to install an amazon gnome
>> search engine and remove the other search engine, but I think that's
>> cumbersome for most users.
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> I think we should tell people how though on the extension's web page. Some
> people, especially technical GNOME community members, might be more than
> willing to do that.
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>> Does anybody know if you can replace search engines from a firefox
>> extension?
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>> Another idea could be to open Friend of GNOME amazon store. I've made
>> one as an example on http://gnome.haitsma.org/friends/amazon/
>> If we motivate people to use that store to buy their books, dvds,
>> computers etc. the foundation can also raise significant money.
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> I like it. Is there anyway we could add a "being read by the community"?
> Maybe scan for isbn numbers mentioned on Planet and have those products
> automatically included?
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That I think is not possible I haven't seen any programming interface
for making these stores.
You could of course make a custom page which you make from scraping
planet gnome for books and generating links with the right referrer in
there. With these links you generate a custom page read by the
community

Jaap

Jaap