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Jonathan Starbucks card in the wallet Jonathan Stark. You can download a copy of the card (shown here), and when there's money on it, scan it at any Starbucks to buy coffee and as anyone can tell, Jonathan doesn't care. Crazy, you say? Of course, this is crazy ... as a Fox.
Jonathan Stark is a programmer and writer, and experiment with social sharing of physical goods using digital currencies to mobile phones. "like the old Italian tradition Cafe Pagato, Jonathan wants you to use the cash to his card, buy your own coffee. He also wants you to Tweet about your experience and if you're really cool, put a little money on the card.
He wrote the API for accessing the current card balance, and he has the Tweetstream, who tweets from the numebrs. As of this writing there are about $ 180 (update: someone grabbed $ 150 off the card just now), so you can probably hit the Cafe today Jonathan penny.
Want to help the cause? Here's how to add money at stake.
1. visit starbucks.com/card
2. click ' Reload map
3. Enter the card number, you can see in the picture (6061006913522430)
4. press the button "reload this card" in the left sidebar
5. Select the reload amount
6. choose payment method
I think the most interesting aspect of this whole project in the innate suggestion of trust and hope that the many "will do the right thing in homogeneous world, this is the Internet. Unfortunately I suspect card will soon be used, except for regular infusions, greed will win the day. I also wonder how long it will take before Starbucks completes this is because the rods ... ummm ... because it undermines … um … because this anarchist?
You can grab your copy of the map here. Happy sipping.
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