via blog.venmo.com
This is pretty ingenious. Kudos to the Venmo guys for coming up with this hack. However, Siri got hung up on my pronunciation of Venmo. Hopefully it gets better over time. Otherwise they might have to change their name :-)
This is pretty ingenious. Kudos to the Venmo guys for coming up with this hack. However, Siri got hung up on my pronunciation of Venmo. Hopefully it gets better over time. Otherwise they might have to change their name :-)
I'm at Sightglass Coffee in the city, Jack Dorsey's coffee bar. Very cool space. Still under construction but should be open in a few weeks.
What was even more cool was the Square integration at the register. Since this was my first time here, I did the Square swipe. Nothing new, works fine. The really cool part was what happened after. I was prompted to download the Square Wallet which allowed me to add Sightglass as a "card". When I went to order a pastry, I didn't have to swipe my card again. They had me in their list of customers at the store (probably GPS based) and then I put it on my tab. How cool is that? I imagine when Square is at more of my most frequented stores, I would never have to pull out my card again. They just bypassed the whole NFC hoopla.