zoomii.com, a cool user interface to Amazon.com
June 17, 2008 – 8:26 pmI found out about zoomi books on the AWS Blog.
I really like the new user interface…check it out for yourself. Zoom in and out, pan around, and try clicking on the arrows in the headers of each book shelf. Check out the attention to detail as the site even displays book images in a manner that shows their size in relation to the books next to them!
When I saw this site it reminded me of the interface of the iPhone. While Zoomii is not as slick as an iPhone interface it is rather similar in the intuitive way it works.
The writer of the site is a guy called Chris Thiessen. In an interview with Mike from AWS he said:
“I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t even have tried to build Zoomii without Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3; it would have looked too expensive, too daunting. And, of course, Zoomii couldn’t exist without access to a dataset like that. It looks like Amazon is growing a good business with its web services, but it’s providing far more value than it captures–you changed the equation for a lot startups and other projects.”
The site is well worth the visit.
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