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[incka]

Dell Web Services.

I'm not joking.

Look what I found on the news section of tradedoubler:

Dell Product Feed Goes Live
Dell's product feed is now available through the TradeDoubler system. Just go to the Product Search and look under Hardware and Software! [Join program]

Seems like the feed revolution is catching on. Could it be the Atkins diet of web publishing? (Yes, I know my useless similies are getting worse, but I have to keep your interest, like a rat would get bored of drinking from the same sewer, so occasionaly it moves - OK, now thats even worse)

[MattM]

Heh, cool. I figure other companies will be doing the same.

[Chris]

A feed is not the same thing as a web service.

[incka]

Look into it. It's the same, but you download the database to your server, and you can use different companies. It seems more complicated, but you get more specialist companies.

[Chris]

The problem is the downloading. You would need to redownload the database daily to keep it updated. That is significantly more work than what you have to do to keep an AWS site updated (nothing).

[incka]

Yes, but amazon do not do some types of product.

[pas]

Isn't there a charge for the Dell feed?

[chromate]

Loads of companies offer feeds. But as Chris says, it's more work keeping it updated. Maybe not as much as once a day though. Most feeds that I've seen are just CSV files that need downloading and implementing a couple of times a month. But even implementing the code to handle it is more work than AWS.

[ozgression]

Datafeeds are nothing new... Alot of CJ & Shareasale affiliate have been offering them for some time.

I believe CJ charges for access to datafeeds and I think Shareasale's is free (once you are eligible).

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[pas]

Originally posted by chromate
Loads of companies offer feeds. But as Chris says, it's more work keeping it updated. Maybe not as much as once a day though. Most feeds that I've seen are just CSV files that need downloading and implementing a couple of times a month. But even implementing the code to handle it is more work than AWS.

Do you have further info on which companies offer feeds?

Tradedoubler is European only.

[ozgression]

Go to http://abw.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?a=frm&...9&f=1226064751 . ABestWeb have a whole forum devoted to datafeeds.

Companies such as Overstock.com offer them (and I have heard of people being quite successful using them).
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[Chris]

Another issue with feeds is that they don't always contain category information. So you have a list of thousands of products that you need to categorize yourself.