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by mise 5597 days ago
The signup page is linking my to a generic Google help page.
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And there's no demonstration of how it works in the video or in any images. It's as if some people at Google decided to react to Apple's recent bad press by putting up a web page and a blog post announcing a product without actually having built anything yet.
While I suspect One Pass is probably quite a bit from actual use by any publisher, this press release/the video has probably been in the works ever since the rumblings about Apple's subscription plans made the rounds. While not the most honest move, it is a brilliant PR coup.
> While not the most honest move, it is a brilliant PR coup.

You misspelled vaporware.

Apple announced something they're gonna roll out in the next rev. of iOS. Google put out a press release.

Would that be a bad thing? I doubt that's what they've done but it's just lean startup methodology.
Perhaps they're trying to gauge support before rallying to actually build the thing.
This smells like vapor-ware; a pure marketing move. The timing of the announcement, coming so close on the heals of the uproar about Apple's subscriptions and pricing battles with publishers, makes it look like Google is floating a trial balloon without having an actual product available.
GigaOm's report[1] links to an article that suggests Google have been planning a micropayments system for "news and media companies" since 2009: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/google-developing-a-micropa...

[1]: http://gigaom.com/2011/02/16/google-pitches-one-pass-micropa...

Try here:

http://www.google.com/landing/onepass/

Edit: Ah, same problem. Sorry.

Edit 2: It's working now, but they are only after "some partners" so I guess it's a private Beta as such at the moment.

I get the same "error". I think the real login is coming very soon. Maybe to much server load :-)