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No more haggling: Grad student Web site tracks shared expenses
by noteworthy at 5:42 am EST, Dec 5, 2006 |
What an amazing idea! Why, if someone had come up with this idea, say, a year ago, why, they could be rich right now! Splitting dinner checks can cause a splitting headache, even when the diners are a math-oriented data miner, a database security specialist and an expert in networked games. Fed up with haggling over shared debts, Carnegie Mellon University computer science graduate students Shashank Pandit, Amit Manjhi and Ashwin Bharambe three years ago created Buxfer, short for ''bucks transfer.'' The social-networking site with a personal-finance focus allows users to form groups of friends or housemates and track who owes what for utility bills, dinner tabs, day trips and other shared expenses.
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RE: No more haggling: Grad student Web site tracks shared expenses
by Rattle at 5:47 am EST, Dec 5, 2006 |
What an amazing idea! Why, if someone had come up with this idea, say, a year ago, why, they could be rich right now!
You are making your friends sad. |
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RE: No more haggling: Grad student Web site tracks shared expenses
by Decius at 9:40 am EST, Dec 5, 2006 |
noteworthy wrote:
What an amazing idea! Why, if someone had come up with this idea, say, a year ago, why, they could be rich right now! Splitting dinner checks can cause a splitting headache, even when the diners are a math-oriented data miner, a database security specialist and an expert in networked games. Fed up with haggling over shared debts, Carnegie Mellon University computer science graduate students Shashank Pandit, Amit Manjhi and Ashwin Bharambe three years ago created Buxfer, short for ''bucks transfer.'' The social-networking site with a personal-finance focus allows users to form groups of friends or housemates and track who owes what for utility bills, dinner tabs, day trips and other shared expenses.
How the hell do these things get covered by the new york times? |
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RE: No more haggling: Grad student Web site tracks shared expenses
by noteworthy at 10:28 am EST, Dec 5, 2006 |
Decius wrote: How the hell do these things get covered by the new york times?
They're not being "covered" by an NYT reporter. Buxfer is simply linking to the AP wire story, as posted at places like the Post and the Times. |
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RE: No more haggling: Grad student Web site tracks shared expenses
by Shannon at 11:14 am EST, Dec 5, 2006 |
Decius wrote: noteworthy wrote:
What an amazing idea! Why, if someone had come up with this idea, say, a year ago, why, they could be rich right now! Splitting dinner checks can cause a splitting headache, even when the diners are a math-oriented data miner, a database security specialist and an expert in networked games. Fed up with haggling over shared debts, Carnegie Mellon University computer science graduate students Shashank Pandit, Amit Manjhi and Ashwin Bharambe three years ago created Buxfer, short for ''bucks transfer.'' The social-networking site with a personal-finance focus allows users to form groups of friends or housemates and track who owes what for utility bills, dinner tabs, day trips and other shared expenses.
How the hell do these things get covered by the new york times?
Who handles your press releases? |
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