Comments on: Google Checkout Arrives

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Meriblog: Meri Williams’ Weblog » links for 2006-06-30 — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:39:46 +0000

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By: Oluniyi David Ajao

Oluniyi David Ajao — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:54:31 +0000

Hmmnnn… Though I [url=http://www.davidajao.com/blog/2006/06/30/google-checkout-enters-make-money-from-it/]blogged[/url] about this already, I did not notice that it was limited to the USA only. I was already regretting that I did not wait and signed-up for 2Checkout rather, some months ago.

Google Checkout seems to be a great product, but I am not eager to sign-up. I prefer waiting to see how it all goes! 😉

By: HASH

HASH — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:25:05 +0000

Actually, this is a big blind-spot for a lot of great companies, or even startups that have good ideas. They forget that the rest of the world would also like to use it, or they decide that the US is a big enough market and they’ll worry about internationalization later.

My thinking is that it’s an area where startups could make major inroads on their bigger competitors. You’ve got the agility to build for international customers, and you’re starting from scratch. Why not make sure that simple things like dates, commas/periods in numbers, and such are taken care of?

I’m about to launch a new eBay listing tool (details coming soon), and it’s being built with internationalization in mind. This first beta phase will be US, but look for availability in other countries soon thereafter.

By: uner

uner — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:05:36 +0000

too bad, google checkout currently accept sellers from the united states only.. so people from the rest of the world who wants to sell their product through google checkout will have to wait untill dont-know-when