All Your Feeds Are Belong To Us!

I've been working with Feed43 and Feedburner to create feeds of Amazon.com category pages. (If you're working with AWS these are equivalent to the "field-browse" pages.)

It's slow work, but I'm stubborn. and someday I hope to cover at least all of the book pages. (You can find a book about anything, so I think books are the perfect central category for other related spin-offs.

You can use these feeds under their respective Creative Commons licenses any way you like. Put them in RSS-aware pages like Hubpages or Squidoo (I'm sure there are others, and will soon be many more, but those are the two I'm aware of right now)

The feeds have my Amazon associate id embedded in them (naturally), but they are still a good tool for rapid prototyping. If your page "takes off" you can change to other Amazon links (taken from the initial feed-generated list) or if it's a dud, maybe you won't want to bother. You can also just subscribe via your favorite aggregator, and of course I won't object if you want to buy something.

I'm new to Hubpages, and had a lot of trouble with the page-generation for such a long list, but the feeds are all there (I think), and since I'm going to need to break this hubpage into 1 Mb chunks later anyway, I'm afraid you'll just have to find links in the jumble the best you can. (This page is really intended for search engines.)

These feeds represent some of Amazon.com's top-level and second-level categories. They were originally taken from the Amazon Syndicated Content page, which you can presently still Google, but appears to be gone, probably forever. The current feeds are "screen scraped" and should work (at least most of the time ;-)

One thing Amazon never "got" about RSS is that nobody's interested in the top ten most popular items in <some broad category>. They want much more specific topics in their aggregators. These are still useful for spotting broad trends.