BillMonk, a hybrid of financial tracking and social networking that allows you to see what your balance is with your friends, now supports virtual game currencies. BillMonk itself is interesting is that the debts it tracks are all informal, backed only by the trust between/among friends rather than hard currency or legal obligation, making it a virtual and voluntary economy of hundreds of thousands of ___ [<-- insert your favorite unit of currency here]. And now, its gone meta-virtual, adding support for virtual currency debt types as well.
According the Chuck, the BillMonk guru, "The awkwardness friends have with money is a chronic social/cultural problem, and our users tell us that we're really helping them make their lives easier. We find it fascinating to trace friendship networks, especially when they cross currency and location boundaries." Best of all, for those of us interested in the kinds of social/monetary network data this software generates, BillMonk is willing to, er, share the wealth (of data, that is). Properly scrubbed of names and all identifying information to protect folks' privacy of course.
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