boo-box, which already works with Amazon.com for new and used products and eBay for auction offers, is glad to announce its integration with Shopping.com. This will allow you to place product offers with price comparison inside your content.

The difference between Shooping.com Partner Program and the Amazon/eBay affiliate market programs is that Shopping.com pays when you generate traffic for an e-commerce website, while Amazon and eBay pay you when the product you recommended is sold.

It is simple to do it. First you should apply for Shopping.com Partner Program and wait until they accept your subscription; then choose Shopping.com on our add-on; put your user ID and you are ready to start recommending products with price comparison from Shooping.com.

For Brazilian users we have two major e-commerce stores: Americanas.com and Submarino. Check-out our Portuguese blog for more info.

Have fun with your boo-box ;)

Starting today the associates of the Amazon.com affiliate marketing program will be able to use boo-box to recommend MP3 downloads from Amazon.com’s online music store.

The process is simple and quick. In order to show only music downloads in MP3 format in your boo-box you just have to use tags representing the artist or the music that you are recommending and place the ‘mp3′ tag at the beginning or at the end of the tag list. Here are some examples of how to do it:

• mombojo mp3: These tags will show MP3s from the brazilian alternative-rock band Mombojó.
• mp3 bajofondo pulso: These tags will show MP3s related to the song “Pulso (1000 Mares)” from the band Bajofondo Tango Club.
• bezerra respeito favela mp3: These tags will show MP3s of the song “Respeito as Favelas”, which was recorded by the brazilian singer Bezerra da Silva.

The Amazon Associates Program pays 20% for each MP3 download that you generate. All files are DRM-free, giving more freedom to play your downloaded files at any music player. Read more at Amazon MP3 Downloads – Associates Earn 20% from Amazon Associates official weblog.

Nowadays is commoner to see open Web Services’ APIs allowing external access to the data of its Web Applications. Thus any web developer can use the original Web Application infrasctructure and intelligence to make his or her own Application, this is like remixing the Web.

Today boo-box is lauching its public API, now you can use our wonderful product recommendation services to make your own recommendation application.
Advantages:

• We make the impossible to give better results. Our recommendations algorithm is constantly updated; bringing more relevant products to your audience.
• You can use boo-box API to do a search even on an e-commerce that do not have a public API.
• We have a powerfull cache system, which make search quicker than original APIs (that is magic!)
• You can show boo-box’s recommendation with whicheaver look you like, not restraining yourself to the lightbox (but you have to admit that our box is pretty charming).
• It will return a very slim XML code, quicker to load and read, smaller and simpler than XML from e-commerces.

» Continue reading “Now we have an API”

From today on, boo-box users won’t have deal with one boring process: The installation wizard.

Using boo-box now is simpler than ever:

1. Install the browser add-on.
2. Type-in your site and e-mail.
3. Choose a partner program.

Done, three steps and you are ready to insert boo-box links into your content. You won’t need to edit HTML!

Now even those people that don’t know what is a HTML tag will be able to monetize their blogs with boo-box =)

Sites that already have installed the old <script> tag won’t need to be updated, they will continue working normally. “Backwards compatibility” is on our checklist.