We already have P2P lending, in which you can go online and directly lend money to your peers. But what about P2P payments? Fiserv, a company that offers online billing services to banks, is getting ready to launch just such a feature. Here is what Fiserv has to say about the service in a press release:
Using an e-mail address or mobile phone number, consumers will be able to send money to anyone they know, whether it is to repay a friend for concert tickets or dinner, contribute to a fundraiser, pay team dues, pay allowances or even pay the babysitter.  …read more

Alister Cameron is a wee bit miffed at Ray Ozzie’s seeming lack of impact at Microsoft.
Before Ray was with Microsoft he was with IBM and Notes. But in-between he built what I thought was one of the most funky cool amazing things called Groove. You can think of Groove (at least as it was then) as a P2P “team workspace” with really nice encryption, SDK, pricing model, UI, etc. The technology was gorgeous, and the power of it was really impressive. We’re talking shared documents, built-in voice conferencing, whiteboarding, project management, etc. And all that run over a peer-to-peer …read more