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title: "Announcing the Read/WriteWeb Jobs Board"
date: 2006-08-30
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Announcing the Read/WriteWeb Jobs Board

Just kidding… but now that I have your attention, here are some interesting Web Tech tidbits:

- Amazon aStore is a new product from Amazon that enables you “to build a dedicated shopping area that can be embedded within, or linked to from, your website.” [Mitch Ratcliffe](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172423/http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=172) and [Nick Carr](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172423/http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/08/make_widget.php) have examples and good thoughts on this. As Nick said, this is essentially a retail store widget. Hat-tip [Emre Sokullu](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172423/http://www.emresokullu.com/) for sending me a copy of Amazon’s email announcement.
- Never mind Amazon elastic computing, [ GData/Base is where it’s at](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172423/http://wwwscope.com/2006/08/29/why-the-most-significant-online-infrastructure-play-of-august-wasnt-elastic-computing/) – so says Nick Lothian, who notes: “…the possibility of integration of data feeds from Base with Google Spreadsheets is an application feature that intrigues me.” I agree and it’s where Google could be at it’s most dangerous in the ‘Web Office’ game – by mixing in APIs with online office apps.
- [Garett Rogers wonders](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172423/http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=309) if a Personalized start page is coming to Google’s new hosting service.
- [Shopcasting](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172423/http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/08/shopcasting.html) – Fred Wilson has a knack for coining terms (or at least popularizing little known ones) and this is another beauty. The idea of ‘social shopping’ has been knocking around for a while, but with the increasing popularity of widgets – its time may be here.
- Speaking of widgets, check out Hooman Radfar’s new blog [Widgify](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172423/http://www.widgify.com/). In his latest post he says that [Widgets are the New Web Pages](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172423/http://www.widgify.com/?p=5).

So the theme of this little mashup post (with a misleading title) is that online shopping, widgets, Web Office and structured data are beginning to churn out some interesting developments in the Web world. Watch these spaces…

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/links_30aug06.php))*