Making some money out of web services with referral schemes?

[David]

I have just been looking at the Amazon site and they are advertising
the fact that thier site can be accessed as a web service. The idea is
that third parties write their own websites selling books/cds/videos
etc and under the covers these websites will be hooking into Amazon
and ultimately selling Amazons products, the third party website then
gets a referral fee for the sale.

....sounds like a good idea, but the referal fees arnt that high (from
2.5%).

BUT, It got me wondering, Are there any other companies offering
similar schemes? Obviously plenty of sites will offer the bog standard
"add our URL to your site", but are there any others that open up via
web services like this?

Thanks for any help!

David Bevan

http://www.davidbevan.co.uk
http://www.websphereusergroup.org.uk

 

[Cobus]

I know Google also has a web service, but I don't know whether they pay
referal fees.

MS also has a web service to list top KB articles (or is it downloads? can't
remember now...)