When we launched Adaptive Payments a year ago, we were excited to see how developers would use these fine-grained and flexible payments APIs and apply them to various use cases. With all the cool applications built by the PayPal X developer community, we’re even more passionate about adding additional features and functionalities. At Innovate 2010, we launched support for digital goods, embedded/in-context payments, delayed chained payments, guest payments, and the support for Adaptive Payments APIs through our Mobile Payment Library for iOS and Android applications.

As you know, mobile, social and local and were the themes of the PayPal X Innovate developer conference last month, and will continue to be a focus for PayPal X in 2011. A few recent examples of what other developers and partners have done include:

• Bling Nation proved how NFC technologies can help with making payments simple, easy and secure.
• The PayPal Mobile App with Bump proved how payments can be made portable over different communication channels using different mobile devices: iPhone and Android phones.
• FundRazr, iConcessionStand, Kabbage, PayItSquare, Payvment, TipTheWeb and several others demonstrated how the PayPal’s new Adaptive Payments Service can enable several new ways to monetize and enable payments literally anywhere – from web to mobile to devices.

I encourage you all to take a look at the new features and functionalities on x.com, and see how you can mash them up with social local and mobile APIs to build the next cool application that can help change the way we pay. If you are building one, or already developed one, please let us know so we can share it with the rest of the PayPal X developer community.

Go PayPal X!

Quelle: thepaypalblog.com