Lots of people jumping on the Google Instant train...<p>Anyways, towards your iTunes instant:
Why not offer the possibility to preview songs from your web app? You get the preview URL via the API!
Under development: <a href="http://iswebapp.com/itunes/rss" rel="nofollow">http://iswebapp.com/itunes/rss</a><p>For now the site does cross country iTunes RSS search (for Music, Podcasts, Apps, Movies, etc) and displays Album art with tooltip Artist / Album info (via title="...").<p>iswebapp.com will be a collection of "Unofficial and Experimental iTunes Store Web Apps"... aiming to build new experiences for iTunes content with lots of HTML5/CSS3 sexiness.<p>A minimal UI with fast load times. Single purpose apps... much like Stephen's brilliant work.<p>I will be building more web apps on the iTunes RSS/Search API's - affiliated of course. I plan to release an open source jQuery Plugin for RSS, Search and Affiliate link generation. If you're interested drop me a line @i_chris_jacob<p>I started this site a few weeks back but got distracted by Node.js and theories on how to best make the AJAX content indexable (headless browsers, etc).<p>Excited to see such keen interest in Stephen's work... guess I'm onto a good idea. Congrats to Stephen for nailing Instant Search while it's so hot. Wish I was as clever at 15 y/o!<p>Follow @iswebapp - I'll be tweeting once the ball gets rolling.
All of these jsonp / iframe based instantizers have to be putting load on servers (probably not in great volume, but still). There's a reason Google had to put special consideration into how to make the ajax-endpoints scale :)
Would it be possible for you to add support for App Store searches in addition to music, or do Apple's APIs not support that? If you had that, your search would easily replace iTunes's for me.<p>Nicely done!<p>EDIT: Oh, you have movie and TV show searches. Out of curiosity, what country are you in? Some results that come up for me aren't available in the US iTunes Store.
Awesome work man! To make it fully Google Instant, you would want to run the query against the first result in suggest. For instance, if you type in "la" you would get "lady gaga" instead of "L.A". Keep up the great work. :)
Congrats on this clear, uncluttered thinking. Most of us could learn from this. Also, nice mention by Jason Calacanis re: job offer! Next up - Mashable and TechCrunch...<p>Well done!<p>@LeslieCBarry | Iphso