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The Long Tail of Transactions

So there’s a rumour Amazon will be offering a payment service to compete with PayPal. I think a pre-cursor (perhaps test run?) of that is their DevPay service for Amazon WS developers, built on the existing Flexible Payments Service (FPS). I’ve been looking forward to seeing Amazon do this. The FPS is more intrinsically interesting for developers, but it makes sense for Amazon as a company to take a piece of the “long tail of transactions.” If anyone can match PayPal at this, Amazon should be the one.

Antique Cannabis

NDP Motion to Let War Resisters Stay Passes

Who Needs Dead Poets When You’ve Got Leonard Cohen?

Everything’s Social

The Web Bores Me

Amazon vs. Google: Services vs. Application Hosting Plus

Twitter-ized

Theory of Interstellar Trade

Amazon Web Services Redux