Several executive from Twitter, Google, and WordPress are currently in Iraq to see if they could bring the latest web technologies to Iraq! Kudos to the current US government that is very technology-savvy!
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/21/iraq.twitter.technology/index.html

Virtual goods seems to have spread from Asia to elsewhere in the world. Currently there are quite a few social network applications that have adopted the use of virtual currency (e.g. points). Users gain points by being active in the game (or just by logging on to the game), and at the same time, if [...]