I'm Jonathan Starbucks maps: a social experiment (with free coffee)

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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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Card skimming Jonathan for fun and Philanthrophy

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If you've read the Internet regularly this week, you're probably familiar with Jonathan maps, "social experiment" is tantamount to public Starbucks gift card. Perhaps you have bought a coffee with him. You could have it. You could have suspected him of Starbucks, viral (is not).

What you probably don't have a script pull money from the card in order to use it for their own nefarious purposes. And "dastardly purposes", I mean feeding hungry children in Africa. Here comes the ethics!

Sam Odio, who sold Divvyshot Facebook last year and is currently working on launches Freshplum, regardless of the detail in the hack, he put together that undermines rather Jonathan maps philosophy. Uninspired certainly uninspiring parcels "yuppies, buying coffee yuppies", he created a script which checks the card balance and warns him whenever it hits a certain amount. He then puts the money of his own cards. Just today he "earned" $ 625.

At first I thought it was just incredibly Jack step Odio. Odious, if you will. But I'm also less than Amused with the card (bloggers and entrepreneurs by buying bad coffee) than with the idea, which is obvious, of course. And of course we run Conference (now coming to Beijing!) called Disrupt and Hackathon, where is the exact behavior is encouraged. It's just not always enough so is impertinent.

But the reason even to condemn? This is an experiment in social media, in the end. Pass the plate around with dollar and you can get the plate with one hundred — or some else can save you from counting your money. The idea of a public, unsecured transfer device used throughout the country, their own objectives, and the subversion model just part of the process. Now, when I had time to think about it, I think, Odio in response (turn it down), exactly correct, and I'm glad to see money going to a good cause (it's actually $ 10 higher than its face value on eBay).

In addition, an original experiment continues — it will not be a big part of the experiment, if he hadn't made his results. But how do you feel those who donated? Probably deceived — but it's not very rational, is it? They put their money on a plate. They don't buy the plate. They will continue to donate? Will people clone script and race to the bottom, transmit their own balances a penny? I would say this experiment just got much more interesting.

Update: Unfortunately, Starbucks close map down almost the moment I wrote that. So this experiment just got a lot more over. Well it would be interesting.

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