Amazon is the oldest and probably only head-on competitor of ebay.com . Recently Amazon announced a service aimed at developers to integrate into their site/application, a payment processor which the popular ebay company, paypal does.

Amazon FPS Functionality
You can use the extensive feature set of Amazon FPS to conduct a wide variety of transactions under virtually any se

Yahoo Publisher Network now offers quick Paypal payments with minimum payout of $50 instead of normal $100 , So you don’t need to wait for 7-10 days for the check.

We’ll transfer earnings here, and you can transfer them into your bank account at your convenience.

Touchdown! Go Daddy finally gets the nod from CBS to run its third Superbowl ad submission, “The Office: Marketing.” See the ad that made the cut at Youtube .

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This bit of news might better be filed under horror stories or offbeat. According to one site owner, within two days of launching and announcing an ecommerce website featuring high-end products, the hosting company *lost* it due to an employee error.

According to my host, the server company overrode the C drive for the 60+ websites, then finalized the loss by deleting the backup secondary drive.

What’s the moral of this story? Backup, backup, backup!

read more about the fiasco | see the digg story

All networks lead to the Roman datacenter. This might be interesting to any of you who watched the HBO Rome series which ended last night. Hilarious list of parallels between ancient rome and the modern-day web.

read more | digg story