Zazz! now on the sidebar

Scott on 2006-08-12 at 9:22 pm, filed under Bargain Blog, Zazz

Zazz! on the sidebar I loved the Zazz! guys. They are unique. The copy is humorous. They sell geeky stuff. Most importantly, the price is cheap — only if you catch it before they sold out. It also got me a bad habit of sleeping a few minutes after the mid-night so I can see what’s on sale.

So a few minutes of coding last night I now have a little script that download Zazz!’s latest product and reformatted to a sidebar block. If Jumba’s crontab is working properly (somehow it did not run this morning), this script should be executed at 12:05am everyday. It’ll hopefully remind me (and visitors here) what’s on sale at Zazz!

I am also planning to integrate some web services on the sidebar. For example if on-line discount stores provide RSS feed (so far I have only found Deals Direct had one), I can have an aggregator somewhere. Any other idea?

Update: Quoted from Zazz’s Mates page:

Scott and the rest of the OzBargainBlog team have been super awesome fantastic in promoting us to their readers. They even created a sidebar on their website that shows the zazz of the day! Thanks guys, we love you.

Awesome! No problem mate! Except it is only me here blogging. Now, where is my OzBargainBlog team? Are they on-sale somewhere?

5 Comments

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    Leigh on 13/08/2006 at 12:04 am

    If you have some ideas for any additional feeds or website widgets you’d like to see from DealsDirect, I might be able to sort something out for you :)

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    Scott on 13/08/2006 at 12:16 am

    Leigh,

    Thanks for the offer! I am actually pretty happy with the current feed which has all the new items.

    Other good ones to have are:

    1. Those on the index page. I believe they are on the index page because Deals Direct is trying to market them (on special for example).

    2. Best sellers. For example the best seller over the last 30 days, if you have access to those statistics.

    I guess it is possible to just scrap the HTML page, but much easier if feeds can be provided in XML and everything clearly defined, i.e. less work for me :)

    In the next few days I’ll put in an aggregated Deals Direct feed somewhere.

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    Scott on 13/08/2006 at 12:20 am

    Err. I think I have just bought the Ritmo Double Shock USB TwinPad for $26.70. Now I just need to find some retro games…

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    Leigh on 14/08/2006 at 6:48 am

    Thanks for the feedback - I’ll put this to our techie team and see what they come up with :)

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    S. on 21/08/2006 at 2:59 pm

    Thanks for the kind words, Scott.

    I’m working on coding an RSS feed at the moment since our usual programmer is on holidays, I’ll let you know when one’s done…

    If you need anything else, please don’t hesitate to contact me :D

    Love,
    s.
    Copy Writer and Maintenance Guy at Zazz

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