EBay Live! 2008: All Hail Paypal!

Interesting to see how aggressively the eBay management was pushing the eBay owned Paypal payment system at this year's eBay Live! Conference.

EBay would like to establish Paypal as the “safest” payment method for online commerce – and it would be near and dear to eBay if it could become the singular choice for all eBay’ers.

For 2 years, eBay has been under strong pressure from Google’s Checkout payment solution. 

And it’s only a matter of time until Amazon brings its own payment/checkout system officially to the market (see: "Is Amazon Planning To Go Head-to-Head With PayPal?").

Introduced at this year’s Developer’s Conference was eBay Checkout and Paypal Express Checkout.  The Checkout buttons came from this presentation (PDF).

Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, translated by Jason Soo.