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Know more about Web ServicesActivityFind a website or an application that can show a real use of Web service in action. Write a short paragraph to describe the software as well as what particular Web service it is using. Every one should contribute one good entry. The results of our work are then aggregated and displayed here for sharing. Web Services In Action
Web Service used: Amazon Web Service
Brief description: It is a VB.NET application that runs on Windows OS. It is developed with iTunes COM for Windows SDK and use the Amazon.com Web Service to automatically import album art while using iTunes. (provided by Steven Choy)
Web Service used: Amazon Web Services
Brief description: The link points to an article about writing a program that demonstrates consuming a Web service. It uses Amazon Web services to build an application that searches for books, music or movies based on keywords. (provided by Li Ching Lam)
Web Service used: eBay Web Services
Brief description: The link points to a tutorial about how to use PHP to develop a program that searches eBay using the REST API. This page provides links to mOre tutorials for other programming languages. (provided by Jack Lam)
Web Service used: eBay Web Services
Brief description:GarageSale is a slick, full-featured client application for the eBay online auction system. With GarageSale Mac OS X users can finally compose eye-catching auctions quickly using an intuitive Mac-like interface. (provided by Jack Lam)
Web Service used: eBay Web Services
Brief description: It is a C# .NET application that runs on Windows OS. It is a marketplace application that use Amazon FPS to enable the developer to take part in transaction which money transfers between two third parties. (provided by Ronald Choi)
Web Service used: Flickr Web Service ?
Brief description: ShoZu is the easiest way to upload photos from your phone to your Flickr photostream. With just one click your photo is on the web. You can add a title, tags and a description either before or after upload. You can even change these later, from your phone. When friends or fans comment on any photo in your Flickr photostream, ShoZu forwards those comments to your phone. You can even reply to them. (provided by Donald Cheung)
Web Service used: Flickr Web Service
Brief description: FlickrEdit is a Java Desktop application that allows you to display and edit your photos in a variety of ways. It also allows you to download or upload your photos to and from Flickr. FlickrEdit is written in Java and it uses flickrj framework to access Flickr. (provided by Leung Chun Kin)
Web Service used: Amazon Web Service
Brief description: Jamglue is an online web application for creating your own remixes audio. They use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for media storage and streaming. They also included the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for backend audio processing. (provided by Emily Fung)
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