If you had any shares in (AMZN) you will be smiling from ear to ear after last week's meteoric rise. And to confound the experts who instantly downgraded Amazon shares and also propound the idea of sell in May and stay away, the stock is holding. Amazing Amazon.

Not that I am suggesting you buy in now, (ask Wallstreet Fighter for those sort of tips) but Amazon the shopping giant has to be a good bet for future growth. They are ploughing a mighty impressive furrow with their S3 services software and ensuring the future continues to hold great promise for them in the shoposphere.

What is S3?

It is not a variant of car from Audi, but it has a hot engine to power all sorts of database search - Amazon's database, of course. Working on a simple theory, that the more searches made, the more sales will follow, Amazon are encouraging developers to tap into lots of juicy shopping info and present it in imaginative ways off the back of the S3 framework.

TicTap and Amazon

This is a periodic feature on The Pisstakers. Simple random search based on keywords, plus simple presentation with lots of pop-up info. Ideal for shoppers and/or bloggers short of material!

Penny book store

On Amazon there are 239,000 books that cost a penny plus shipping. Relax, now they are brought to you in an easy-to-search site built using Amazon software.
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Auto parts review

All this info on auto parts is dragged out of the Amazon database and presented for car part nuts to review. Simple, effective, smart use of existng info.

Fancy writing about a muffler, or a Xantrex 852...power back-up unit, now's your chance!

Conclusion about S3 services

The upside of all this is that Amazon S3 enables developers to make sense of a website that many find unusable. I am talking amazon.com, not The Pisstakers btw.