A Map of Every PayPal Payment Made in the World [Image]

We're here at the Paypal Platform preview at eBay headquarters in San Jose, California. While we were waiting for Scott Thompson, Paypal's President, to come up and tell us about the "future of payments," an interesting map on the giant screens around us piqued our interest.

This digital, constantly moving map indicates with a white blip every payment occurring on the PayPal platform in real-time. The color and size of the blips indicate the size of the transactions. You can quickly tell that the U.S. and the UK are the hot spots.

I snapped a quick image with my iPhone before it vanished, so pardon the photo quality:

We're pretty certain the map's going to come up again, and we'll post more pictures when it does. But if you want to see it in video form, you can watch this live stream of the Platform announcement, courtesy of Ustream:

Live streaming video by Ustream