{"id":620,"date":"2002-07-16T02:40:02","date_gmt":"2002-07-16T10:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/16\/more-amazon-goodies\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:53:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T20:53:28","slug":"more-amazon-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/16\/more-amazon-goodies\/","title":{"rendered":"More Amazon goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about to be heading to bed, but I spent a little time tonight playing around with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\" title=\"Amazon\">Amazon<\/a>&#8216;s recommendation features. As you bounce through Amazon you can tell them what you own and assign ratings to items, which they then use to create recommendation pages. So far, it&#8217;s actually be fairly impressive &#8212; the more I put in, the more accurate they get. At the moment, off the top of my head, I&#8217;d say that for every 5 items they recommend, I&#8217;m likely to already own 3 of them (at least with music &#8212; the ratio for DVDs and books is somewhat less). Quite interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also created an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/registry\/1P4IU0ESEJFTS\" title=\"Wudi's Amazon wishlist\">Amazon wishlist<\/a> so that should anyone ever feel like spending money on me, they&#8217;ll have some suggestions. Woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment, off the top of my head, I&#8217;d say that for every 5 items they recommend, I&#8217;m likely to already own 3 of them (at least with music &#8212; the ratio for DVDs and books is somewhat less). Quite interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}