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One of the ways I work on new ideas is to build prototypes that incorporate new ideas. Sometimes these prototypes actually turn into something. The Amazon.com Shopping Plug-in, which I'm posting to the Test Kitchen today, is an example of one that did.

Now before you say "Why is he working on this when MacGourmet still doesn't include [insert your most wanted feature here]?" projects like this plug-in help me to try new ideas, and keep things fresh, without disrupting normal MacGourmet development.

Some of the ideas in this plug-in you will probably see show up in MacGourmet at some point. Some of the ideas are just ones I wanted to play around with, like using the Amazon.com web service, and being able to search for cooking related things without all of the "noise" of the regular Amazon.com web site. One thing that's really nice about this plug-in is that you can easily see the Amazon.com stocked products that match your search (think "free shipping") one thing that I've always found sort of hard to do using the regular web site. If you want to shop Amazon.com this holiday season using this plug-in as a jumping off point, you'll be buying though the MacGourmet affiliate link, but making affiliate commissions is not why this was done.

I'm releasing this as something MacGourmet users can try out and play with, sort of a preview of upcoming things. If people like it, I'll continue to improve it from time to time, as new ideas are added to it, because it is, foremost, a testbed for new ideas, and a development project. Let me know what you think!

Labels: Test Kitchen