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Introducing the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS). This is an initial public beta release of Amazon FPS.
Yesterday, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch said [techcrunch.com]:
They’ve been quietly testing the service, which will compete with PayPal and Google Checkout, for a few weeks. It is an extension of the existing Amazon Payments, which allows third parties selling items on Amazon’s extended network to receive payments from buyers...Users will be redirected to Amazon’s servers to complete the payment and then returned to the original site...The service will also allow sites to use Amazon to manage payments between users, and receive confirmation of transactions.
Today, Amazon accidently announced FPS on their Developer Connection forum. Google blog search failed to cache the page before it vanished but developers who subscribe to the RSS feed received a present [s3.amazonaws.com].
It appears a couple of the alpha testers were anxious to publicize their new consulting skill. Both ElasticLive.com [72.14.253.104] and socialABLEmedia.com [72.14.253.104] cited Amazon FPS as well as something called Amazon 1 Pay. Each company has since removed the citations, though not before Google cached [google.com] the offending pages.
FPS is obviously a web service, so what is 1 Pay? Maybe 1 Pay is the end user interface and FPS refers to the developer tools. One or the both are subset(s) of Amazon Payments [amazon.com]. Until tomorrow, though, (a hint [twitter.com] from the AWS team suggests we need wait only 1 more day, maybe 2), it is anyone's guess.
