Signs Point to Payment Platform Launch

Mike Germano of Carrot Creative posted a tweet earlier today that mentioned he was getting an SSL version of Facebook showing up. Why would Facebook need and SSL version of their site up and running? Technically they don’t currently but with the impending launch of the Facebook payment platform (which many are speculating will launch at f8), it makes sense that Facebook would be testing out their new payment platform.

Joshua Backer posted the following image of his Flock browser displaying the SSL version of Facebook:

So is it now official that Facebook is about to launch their payment platform? Not yet but it definitely is one little hint that the platform could be launching soon.

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