Today whilst tucking into my lunch I was browsing the daily e-newsletter from the lovely guys at Mashable and came across this article: Facebook’s PayPal Rival? Gift Marketplace On the Way. It looks at Facebook’s plans to create a virtual currency and turn it into a payment platform that would spread across the web and realize the original goal of PayPal: to become the web’s universal currency.

I’ve been reading a lot recently about how Twitter can be used for business, any business. Whether you’re a swimwear retailer, a telecoms giant or an animal-related charity, Twitter, apparently, is for you. No longer content with targeted advertising through Facebook (or perhaps scared off by the PR disaster surrounding Facebook opening up personal profile information to advertisers to allow them to market direct on people’s pages) and apparently shying away from the increasingly niche (in the UK at least) MySpace, Twitter is the place to be seen.