Tivo Madness
Dan Theurer of my team created a Java application that enables a user to search for and purchase items on eBay from within Tivo using Tivos’ HME software development kit and our Java SDK. It’s a proof-of-concept application, not 100% ready for prime time but functional (and actually pretty impressive to look at, I’ll try to post some screen shots later).
We released the application today under an open-source license. We’ve been doing this with samples on the down-low for a while now, but we’re just starting to get serious about releasing stuff like this under real open-source licenses so as to avoid any ambiguity as to what you can do with the code. We will be doing more of this in the future and supporting it in better ways.
We timed the release to coincide with a number of useful new offerings from our group, including live support and expanded message board support for developers using the eBay API.
Update: Slashdotted, boo-ya!
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