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Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by jrockway »

bpd1069 wrote: post #114
jrockway wrote: post #42

Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.

I want to make use of this sooner rather than later. Is the rollout completely random or determined by some other meaningful factor. Lets say I connect my bank account with Google Wallet now, would that put me in line above someone without a bank account associated with their Google Wallet?

The rollout is such that when you successfully claim money you've been sent, you'll be able to send money from Gmail about 30 minutes after that. (It will be a couple weeks if your account is on an Apps domain and your domain administrator has not opted in to the faster feature release cycle.)

We're sending money to the I/O attendees first, and then they'll be able to send money to their friends, and so on.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by jrockway »

iheart2code wrote: post #45
jrockway wrote: post #42

Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.

How can Google Wallet be truly successful if it is only allowed to exist on a (relatively) small subset of mobile devices?

"Google Wallet" is actually the name for most of the payments-related stuff at Google; visit https://wallet.google.com/ for the main interface and http://support.google.com/wallet/?hl=en for various articles explaining what you can do in more detail.

Pay-by-Gmail, which is what we launched today, is actually used through Gmail on your desktop.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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jrockway wrote: post #42

Hi everyone. I've been working on this at Google for a while and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you don't want to ask here, feel free to email me at AT google.com. There might be a delay in responding if I get a lot of messages or if you have a particularly challenging question.

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Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by _b8r0 »

pg wrote: post #90

I think this is going to be really big. But it might require actual customer service; that must have made them think twice.

The amount they pay for bug bounties has just become worthless. The value of an XSS or even CSRF bug in Google products has just shot through the roof.

I hope it works. If it does it'll have a massive impact on the world and hopefully utterly screw paypal, but the potential for fraud is huge. It's one thing to secure a payment portal, but a complex mail app with a combined payment portal is a massive challenge. I hope they can live up to it.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by luke_s »

I know this will just get burred under the 428 comments this story already has - but can we _please_ change the title to include "Within the US"

Not all of the worlds 7 billion people live in the united states you know ...

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by rogerbinns »

encoderer wrote: post #154
rogerbinns wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google's 2 step authentication is completely useless to some of us because they don't have actual per application passwords. For example if you use an IMAP client to read gmail, then you can get an "application specific" password for it. But Google then allow that password to be used for anything. Essentially you've used 2 step authentication in order to setup 1 step authentication.

But that password gives you restricted access, right? It can't be used, for example, to change your account password or view your search history, etc? At least that's how I understood it? Obviously there's nothing Google can do about the fact that people want to access their email over things like imap that aren't built with Google 2-factor in mind.

I don't know which APIs get access to the passwords. In my case I would need app specific passwords for IMAP and XMAPP and that constitutes the majority of my interaction with Google.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by RachelF »

lucb1e wrote: post #7
Khao wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as it's US-only (as with almost every cool thing Google does) it's not a threat at all.

... it's US-only, again? It won't be long before I just proxy all of my traffic through Amazon s3 or something.

Google has been promising non-US/UK only Google wallet since 2008, but never done it.

Re: Send money with Gmail

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Post by tar »

pg wrote: post #90

I think this is going to be really big. But it might require actual customer service; that must have made them think twice.

I am a regular AdWords user and Google's customer service for it has been pretty spectacular.
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