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InvisiblePeople.tv Road Trip U.S.A using Amazon Payments to collect online donations.

Mark Horvath has set out to increase awareness about homelessness in America through the InvisiblePeople.tv Road Trip U.S.A. Horvath will visit over 25 cities across the nation in order to help bring understanding and knowledge to the growing homeless crisis through the power of social media. 

Hovarth is sharing personal stories of homeless people he meets through his blog, YouTube and Vimeo, and through social networks including Twitter and Facebook. In addition, he will share stories in real-time on Whrrl as he visits these communities.

Hovarth is accepting online donations on his blog and the Invisible People page on Whrrl using Amazon Payments.  With Amazon Payments' Amazon Simple Pay Donations solutions, supporters can easily donate to a nonprofit accepting Amazon Payments for online donations. Amazon.com customers can use the information in their Amazon.com account to donate on the nonprofit’s website without having to re-enter their payment information.

The InvisiblePeople.tv Road Trip U.S.A. tour is co-sponsored by Ford, Hanes and Whrrl. 

To learn more and follow Mark along during his journey, please visit: 

http://invisiblepeople.tv/blog/invisible-people-homeless-road-trip/  

Upcoming Webinar: "Checkout by Amazon " - Tuesday, July 28th - 10AM PDT

Here's our upcoming webinar scheduled for next Tuesday (July 28th), 10:00 am PDT.

Our topic will be "Checkout by Amazon – Inviting Amazon customers to shop on your website."

In this webinar, we will present how you can implement Checkout by Amazon, our latest new features, why Amazon customers like using Checkout by Amazon on merchant sites.

Register today to reserve your spot! https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/315994817

AWS Start-Up Challenge and Amazon Payments Prize for 2009

From Jeff Bar at Amazon Web Services Blog:

We're kicking off the third annual AWS Start-Up Challenge now.

We're looking for the hottest and coolest start-ups and start-up ideas. Developers and entrepreneurs in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel are encouraged to enter for a chance to win $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, mentoring sessions from AWS technical experts, and AWS Premium Support Gold for one year.

From our Amazon Payments team: This year, AWS has included an exciting prize from Amazon Payments for the AWS Start-Up Challenge finalist with the most creative monetization strategy and use of Amazon Payments solutions. Winner of the Amazon Payments prize will go home with $10,000 in combined cash and Amazon Payments credits.

To enter, fill out and submit the online application by August 26, 2009. The judging panel will review all of the application and choose the seven best, based on originality and creativity, likelihood of long-term success, monetization strategy, quality of proposal, and effective use of AWS.

The finalists will be announced in October. At that time we will post a video of each finalist and invite the public to vote for their favorite. Then we'll fly all of the finalists to Silicon Valley where they'll present their ideas to the judges' panel during the day, and pitch them to a live audience of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists that night, where the winner will be chosen, announced, and feted.

All runner-up finalists will receive $5,000 in AWS service credits; all entrants with qualified submissions will receive $25 credits.

The Challenge finalist with the most creative monetization model using the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) or Simple Pay from Amazon Payments will win $10,000 in combined cash and Amazon Payments credits. All finalists using these services will receive $2,500 in Amazon Payments credits. Read more here.

Questions? Check out the contest rules, review the prizes, and scan the FAQ. You may also want to watch the videos we made for the 2007 and 2008 finalists.

From Jeff Bar at Amazon Web Services Blog:

We're kicking off the third annual AWS Start-Up Challenge now.

We're looking for the hottest and coolest start-ups and start-up ideas. Developers and entrepreneurs in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel are encouraged to enter for a chance to win $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, mentoring sessions from AWS technical experts, and AWS Premium Support Gold for one year.

From our Amazon Payments team: This year, AWS has included an exciting prize from Amazon Payments for the AWS Start-Up Challenge finalist with the most creative monetization strategy and use of Amazon Payments solutions. Winner of the Amazon Payments prize will go home with $10,000 in combined cash and Amazon Payments credits.

To enter, fill out and submit the online application by August 26, 2009. The judging panel will review all of the application and choose the seven best, based on originality and creativity, likelihood of long-term success, monetization strategy, quality of proposal, and effective use of AWS.

The finalists will be announced in October. At that time we will post a video of each finalist and invite the public to vote for their favorite. Then we'll fly all of the finalists to Silicon Valley where they'll present their ideas to the judges' panel during the day, and pitch them to a live audience of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists that night, where the winner will be chosen, announced, and feted.

All runner-up finalists will receive $5,000 in AWS service credits; all entrants with qualified submissions will receive $25 credits.

The Challenge finalist with the most creative monetization model using the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) or Simple Pay from Amazon Payments will win $10,000 in combined cash and Amazon Payments credits. All finalists using these services will receive $2,500 in Amazon Payments credits. Read more here.

Questions? Check out the contest rules, review the prizes, and scan the FAQ. You may also want to watch the videos we made for the 2007 and 2008 finalists.