Mobile credit card reader competition continues to heat up. Square credit card readers are now being sold directly by Apple in their retail stores and online. Square readers also work on iPad and iPod touch (i.e. any current iOS-based device) as well as Android devices. The readers connect using a mobile device’s headphone jack. It’s [...]
What are your payment pain points? I’m currently researching payment and transaction types, use cases, and the like that are difficult for developers to understand or implement. I’m focusing upon mobility, identity, and security related issues, but I am interested in covering all commerce issues. And not just online or mobile commerce, either; in fact, [...]
In previous posts I’ve written about LinkedIn’s REST API and embeddable widgets. In this post I want to show you how you can bring the power of their REST API to bear in Ajax apps using the LinkedIn JavaScript API. LinkedIn says the following on its JSAPI reference page: This API bridges between the user’s [...]
PayPal X Platform Part 3 of my @PayPalX data market series examines premium @factual and @infochimps datasets and building a market http://bit.ly/hsdEoD # The conclusion to my @PayPalX data markets series examines micropayments for data subsets using RESTful APIs http://bit.ly/ecZ3Rm # Here's a bundle of all four articles in my @PayPalX "Selling Digital Goods in [...]
LinkedIn, the professional networking site of choice, has been very busy lately introducing new features. You may have seen the news about their “InMaps” showing connectivity to, and clustering of, members of your network. And perhaps you’ve tried out their Skills searches or their LinkedIn Today daily view of the news that matters to others [...]
It’s been a while since I wrote about the second PayPal X Developer Challenge. In the months since we’ve seen mobile applications in general and Android apps in particular skyrocket in terms of consumer and developer interest. So much so that it should come as no surprise that when PayPal announced their third Developer Challenge [...]
In response to my ongoing MoSoLo series‘ posts on web API power tools including YQL, PayPal Developer Evangelist Praveen Alavilli pointed me to some recent work he’s done to support PayPal transaction search including details via YQL: Bill – you should look at the two new yql tables that I’ve added to our github account: [...]
PayPal X Platform: Now that @PayPalX Digital Goods is out of beta http://bit.ly/gd5JZm here's a refresher on how to use it: http://bit.ly/hqPf1E # New @PayPalX DevTalk newsletter http://bit.ly/i2x3z0 includes free @OReillyMedia epayments report http://bit.ly/fh6ysK (login required) # Fav line from this new @PayPalX ecommerce article http://bit.ly/hRBoRg "If you're paying for things upfront nowadays, you're doing [...]
How would you like to be able to get more traffic for your PayPal-based applications? Embed your apps in the PayPal.com site? Have thousands or even millions of customers consider and potentially use your new application? If that sounds like a great opportunity to you, you need to look closely at PayPal Apps. PayPal Apps [...]
My recent post on Intuit giving away free mobile credit card readers for smartphones has received a decent amount of reader comments via back-channel discussion. My mention of PayPal Mobile SMS payments near the bottom of the post seemed to draw particular attention. One of my readers, Peter Mancini (a former colleague from my days [...]
