Bookster - An Experiment Using Amazon Web Services

I've been working some on a new version of BookKit CFC and decided to do a little experiment while I was at it as a proof of concept. Bookster is an experimental site that treats the relationships between Amazon books in a manner similar to "Friend of a Friend" networks such as Friendster, Tribe, and Orkut. For now you can only "see" one degree of separation, but I am planning on some additional levels of relationships soon. I've also used this project as an opportunity to refine my skills at writing valid XHTML and CSS. Bookster validates as XHTML 1.0 strict and should work in most current browsers.

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Steve Nelson Very slick idea! btw, i got a minor xml error on this page: http://bookster.sumoc.com/item.cfm?i=0672321289
Cameron Childress Thanks - fixed. When AWS doesn't have all the data for an item it just doesn't send the element at all (instead of sending an empty element). I didn't catch onto thijs till about halfway through the building process, so there are a few bugs like that I've had to squish.

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