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With what may have been the biggest buildup to a blog post I’ve ever seen (all done via Twitter), Jeff Barr publicly announced Amazon’s FPS product - effectively ending my NDA about it from over a year ago.
FPS is a micro-payment system that shields the parties involved in the transaction from having to deal with all the “icky” stuff involved with online banking. It’s a game changing service that I believe will completely disrupt the online banking industry. FPS makes it so that anyone can have a merchant account in a way that has never been available online.
Amazon’s Flexible Payment Service is a part of their incredible set of APIs that they offer to developers. In the announcement post, Jeff gives a great background history on the Amazon APIs and what has led to FPS being created. Amazon has been incredible at having an open approach to their data and allowing developers extremely cheap, easy access to their services. FPS joins EC2, S3 and the Mechanical Turk as unique web services that can be mashed up in thousands of ways.
The API doc for FPS is reportedly 250 pages long – at the end of his announcement post, Jeff links to all the docs for FPS along with code samples, forums and tutorials. He also links to the ‘sandbox’ for FPS where you can play around with the API and muck things up safely.
The clock is now started for a Facebook integration module using FPS Image may be NSFW.
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