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Amazon announced another new service for web developers.. Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS). Developers can now add a new payment service to their websites which is far more flexible than even PayPal service.

This service has no setup fees. The pricing is as follows:

For Transactions >= $10:
1.5% + $0.01 for Amazon Payments balance transfers
2.0% + $0.05 for bank account debits
2.9% + $0.30 for credit card

For Transactions < $10:
1.5% + $0.01 for Amazon Payments balance transfers
2.0% + $0.05 for bank account debits
5.0% + $0.05 for credit card

For Amazon Payments balance transfers < $0.05:
20% of the transaction amount, with a minimum fee of $0.0025
Qualified developers can apply for the following monthly volume discounts for credit card transactions:
2.5% + $0.30 per transaction for payment volume from $3K- $10K
2.2% + $0.30 per transaction for payment volume from $10K – $100K
1.9% + $0.30 per transaction for payment volume over $100K

This service blows out my 2CheckOut account which is not flexible at all and cost me around 50$ for setup. It

As slayerment says on his blog, the steps are:
1. Replace esomething.com with MYsomething.com
2. Increase 10px font to at least 12-16px font
3. Change categories to tags
4. Change your news section to a blog
5. Change email a friend to RSS subscriptions
6. Change bookmark this to social network this
7. Change user account to user profile
8. Change crappy hard-coded HTML to Semantic HTML with CSS
9. It’s visitors not HITS!
11. Change esite.com?id=5235&sort=desc&useless=this &one%20more=still%20useless TO.. mysite.com/meaningful-title
12. Change custom built site to open source CMS

Want more detailed? Check it out here

How to get started with OpenID? A question I was asking my self lately. But recently Jarkko Laine posting an article which will save me alot of time searching on how to start using openID on a website.

More of working for google!

Okay.. last video got me excited so I start to look for more google videos.

I like google, and I thinking I’m liking how developers work there.

So what is the myster about robots.txt ? Have you ever seen Googlebot browsing your website? Well, it is the way how search engines index your website. More about it here.