Storefront 2.0

I was playing around with the Paypal Storefront Widgets today and getting my head wrapped around what they offer. They are a flashed based widget that are pretty slick.

You can manage your storefront look and theme and all the details about your products. You can change your settings on whether your storefront is open or closed as well as manage yourproduct inventory and how many are available for saPublish Postle.

It got me thinking about how the storefront is continuing its migration from the home web site. It has the potential to exist beyond the affiliate storefront as well.

You can publish your products and allow people to purchase individual or multiple products anywhere.

Lots of potential here.

Another Sweet Amazon Web Services - DevPay

Amazon just added another quality web service to their killer lineup. They released Amazon DevPay in Limited Beta, which is a simple-to-use billing and account service that assists developers in getting paid for applications they build using Amazon Web Services.

Its a layer built on their Flexible Payment Services and allows me to integrate it into applications I build and allows me to create and manage the billing system for the application.

I allows me to take advantage of various payment setups such as recurring and usage-based pricing models.

Interesting addition....I still haven't completely grasped how SimpleDB is going to be worked into my architecture. Lots to do!