Hi, I’m Carolyn Mellor and I am a PayPal Developer Champion for the PayPal Platform Team. Today we are getting ready for our Platform Preview event at our North Campus in San Jose, CA.

During the main session we are going to talk about our new developer platform strategy and PayPal’s new suites of services will allow deeper access into PayPal core functionality. We are also going to have some cool demos and partner announcements. You can watch all the action via our live webcast at www.x.com/platformpreview

Following the main session we are having a Code & Build session which will give some attendees a chance to work PayPal’s next generation APIs, and to ask questions of our technical support staff. We will be having more of these Code & Builds in the coming months – watch www.x.com for more details coming soon.

If you can’t be here in San Jose with us for the Preview – you can find out all that is happening by following on twitter – hash tag #platformpreview. For more information on all things developer at PayPal you can follow @paypaldeveloper on Twitter too. Keep posted to www.x.com for more blogs and pictures of this event in the next few days.

You may have heard some breaking news that PayPal will be the first and only global payments platform open to third-party developers. Indeed, it’s true. Take a look at the PayPal Blog entry Osama Bedier (VP of platform and emerging technology and my boss) posted earlier today. It talks about our limited-seating preview event on July 23rd where you can get more details on the APIs, as well as our developer’s conference in November. This is game changing stuff, and we want you to be part of it. We believe that providing a global payments platform will open up countless opportunities for developers to innovate and create new revenue streams. We want developers worldwide to easily make money from their ideas.

Let me take a minute to thank the developer community for the overwhelming response. It has been amazing. To be part of the action, follow PayPal Developer on Twitter and visit us on www.x.com as we begin to roll out our new services and capabilities.

Nederlandse banken stellen iDeal gratis ter beschikking aan collega`s in de Europese Raad voor Betalingsverkeer (EPC).

De banken vrezen dat nieuwkomers een groot deel van de markt voor betalingsverkeer naar zich toe zullen trekken. Wanneer webwinkelklanten voor iDeal kiezen, krijgen ze automatisch het inlogscherm van hun eigen bankrekening voor hun neus. Zo`n 85% van de webwinkels maakt al gebruik van iDeal.

`Stel dat je iDeal in de eurobetaalruimte Sepa kunt inbrengen. Dan geef je een enorme stoot aan het elektronische betalingsverkeer`, aldus Frank Taal. Hij is bij ING verantwoordelijk voor het globale beheer van betalingsproducten. `Het systeem is gebruiksvriendelijk, veilig en ook hartstikke succesvol. Dit jaar worden 45 miljoen betalingen verwacht.`

Banken in de eurolanden moeten de komende tijd overschakelen van nationaal, naar Europees betalingsverkeer. Consumenten moeten overal in Europa terechtkunnen met hun betaalkaarten.

Ik heb deze week voor Fortis Bank Nederland een complete diepzee duik genomen in iDeal tot en met de source taal aan toe.  Zeer interessante kost... is namelijk c#... op de E-Channel presentation layer van FBN. Het bracht mij ook naar de volgende US publication FIPS