Best Buy Remix Developer Blog

Hey all...welcome to Best Buy Remix.

I just sent this out to a bunch of people, I thought I'd post it here, as well....

Look for more posts coming soon..

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Hi! We’re a bunch of folks at Best Buy corporate headquarters, and we’ve been developing an exciting project that we’d like to ask your help with.

First, let me tell you a little bit about the project. It’s called Remix and basically, we’re developing an open API to access all of the data that feeds www.bestbuy.com. So, all of the rich information featured on Best Buy’s extensive, deep and content rich web site will now be available publicly via a simple, REST-based API call. You can read all about it, and apply for a key for the API at the Remix portal at http://remix.bestbuy.com.

Over the last couple of months, we’ve been heads down; focused on writing the API and the supporting documentation and we’re finally ready to start sharing this resource with the world. From developing a better bestbuy.com, to creating specialty focused widgets, to making a themed web site, Remix should enable anyone to shake up the data that makes bestbuy.com and reform it in their own image.

This is the part where we’d like to ask for your help. Up to now our job has been to provide this resource to the world; but we don’t want to tell the world what they should do with the information, given the chance. We’re just beginning the private beta phase of the project, and we’re not sure what will come out of it, other than whatever it is, it’ll be interesting. So, given the chance to Remix Best Buy, what would you do? Would you create the world’s best Ska site, featuring a comprehensive, encyclopedic list of Ska releases, with album images, descriptions and fulfillment backed up by bestbuy.com (Ok, don’t take that one, I’m already doing it…)?  Would you create a Facebook application recommending the perfect theater room set-up? Would you create the ultimate fan site for your favorite artist? Would you add images of network gear to your home networking blog?

E-mail me at dave.micko@bestbuy.com and tell me what you would do if you had the chance to Remix Best Buy. We’d love to hear from you.

Dave Micko
Project Lead, Remix
dave.micko@bestbuy.com