Jonathan's Card: A social and electronic experiment that includes free coffee!

**EDIT** It appears the Jonathan's Card has been taken down by Starbucks due to reports of card hacking. Starbucks themselves didn't want to take it down. But someone claimed they hacked to move money to their card from Jonathan's. Its sad too because it turned out to be fake. The guy later posted that he did what everyone else did, wait in line at a Starbucks, but instead of buying anything he asked to transfer some money to his card instead. **

     Yea you read right, free coffee... Ok maybe not that free but still. What is Jonathan's Card? Well its just that, a card in a wallet of someone named Jonathan Stark, but this isn't no ordinary card. Its a Starbucks card used and donated to by hundreds of people across the United States and some folks up in Canada. Why you may ask? For a experiment of course.  It maybe a crazy idea, but its a nice one especially for those who are in need of a cup of joe but are broke at the moment.

     To use Jonathan's Card you download the snapshot of his card's barcode from his website,  http://jonathanstark.com/card/ , to your mobile device and bring it to a Starbucks to scan. Be sure to checkout his card's own twitter account, http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanscard , it tweets out the card balance whenever it changes. Then just dontate what you can (min of $10 using the Starbucks site) later. All instructions on what to do can be found at the site.

     Jonathan Stark is a programmer and writer, who is taking the ideas of "take a penny, leave a penny" and "Caffe Pagato" to a whole new level. This all started when Jonathan found out you couldn't have your Starbucks card registered on more then one phone using the Starbucks mobile payment application. He decied to try to take a screenshot of the barcode of the card in the app and send it to his other phone. When he tried it, it worked, he realized he just had payed with a mere photo, the app wasn't open. Jonathan started a experiment by posting on his blog, he got followers to try the same thing using his barcode snapshot, it worked again. It really got rolling when one of the few that tested it donated back some money to his card, thus truly starting the "pay it forward" Starbucks card known as Jonathan's Card.