This is how the Web version 2.0 is built

It’s all about data. Seriously. I wrote a script today that takes a barcode number and if it’s a DVD looks it up on Yahoo! shopping. This was made possible by the database I talked about yesterday. Without the Yahoo! Shopping API and the UPC Database RPC interface I couldn’t have hooked them together without a lot more work.

Why not check out the barcode script yourself? You will need a PHP install with Curl and RPC compiled (unfortunately it’s not compiled on my web host).

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