Kevin Henrikson

Put together an AJAX demo using Amazon’s webservice API. Basically type in an artist name or song title and it’ll return the first 10 hits from Amazon’s music search. It’s using script.aculo.us for the ‘Grow’ effect when the results return. the search itself is triggered via java script, and parsed locally. The result also triggers a contextual AdSense ad. Tried a few different ideas and seems an embedded iframe worked best. My goal was to make it work without a page reload. So to get an AdSense ad that is contextual to the search I needed to generate a url and title string from the query itself. Anything else seemed to lead to generic ads. I’m sure there are ways to improve on it. If you’ve got an idea leave a comment!

AJAX Amazon Music Search

Just had to laugh at this Tammy Download link (via).

First YubNub Suggest example used script.aculo.us. This time tried Dojo’s autocomplete code. Smoother auto complete, including support for arrow keys, but has a harder time selecting an option. Doesn’t seem to like space as a keystroke selector. You can try it out for yourself.

YubNub Suggest (Dojo)

Ok back to our regularly scheduled program (Javascript, AJAX, Web 2.0, etc) from the Tammy Video linking experiment. Just a couple targeted posts, generated some nice AdSense revenue. Two days of that frenzy, already generated enough Adsense money to pay for months of hosting. Cool! I guess that’s why there are so many of those link spamming blogs out there these days. It actually works, sad.

The Tammy Nyp Video continues to lead Technorati’s top searches! Everyone is in search of the video download. All they want is a link to her video. A pointer to all 3 parts of the video. Well not going to find it here. Maybe it’s linked off my other posts. Here’s the top searches for the last hour.

1. Tammy
2. Tammy Download
3. Nyp Tammy
4. Nyp
5. Youtube
6. Tammynyp
7. Ted Koppel
8. Singapore
9. Iraq
10. Origami
11. Pycon
12. Ipod
13. Singapore Girl
14. Tammy Singapore
15. Will Fight For O…