Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com

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Post by wave » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 2:57 AM UTC

Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com
windowshop.com

Re: Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com

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Post by aneesh » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 3:08 AM UTC

It's a very nice design. It's been up for about a month now.

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Post by markbao » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 3:21 AM UTC

This is up there with ConnectNow and Buzzword as some of the best-designed and most innovative Flash apps I've seen.

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Post by nickb » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 3:40 AM UTC

I almost never like Flash-only sites but this is pretty awesome. I love the simplicity of the UI... just arrow keys!

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Post by lpgauth » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 3:45 AM UTC

Couldn't this be made in javascript? My fan just started (stupid first gen macbook).

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Post by liuliu » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 3:53 AM UTC

A nice design. Looks familiar with CoolIris. But, it is much harder to view more items since there are limited spaces for large, nice poster. There is no search bar for accurate search, no auto recommendation. It is something like best sell book on nytime or top50 on billboard. I can not get any sense about its usability.

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Post by anand » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 3:57 AM UTC

Zoomii.com is a nice completely javascript version by a friend from a canadian startup. Focused completely on books. Zoomii's really impressive. Its speed makes google maps feel slow.

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Post by anand » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 3:58 AM UTC

lpgauth wrote: post #5

Couldn't this be made in javascript? My fan just started (stupid first gen macbook).

yes it can! see my other comment about zoomii.com

Re: Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com

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Post by liuliu » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 4:02 AM UTC

anand wrote: post #8

lpgauth wrote: post #5

Couldn't this be made in javascript? My fan just started (stupid first gen macbook).

yes it can! see my other comment about zoomii.com

sorry but it can not. Obviously, amazon's website involving with some kind of 3d transformation of covers/images. That is one thing existing javascript can not do. zoomii.com is impressive, but there is no 3d transformations though I think it is a minor difference.

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Post by morbidkk » Mon, Oct 27, 2008, 4:09 AM UTC

anand wrote: post #7

Zoomii.com is a nice completely javascript version by a friend from a canadian startup. Focused completely on books. Zoomii's really impressive. Its speed makes google maps feel slow.

yep that was the first thing I recollected as soon as I saw this. I even commented on zoomii blog that this would get propagated to lot of shopping websites. good news really