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"Wesabe is an odd but suprisingly comprehensive and Web 2.0-friendly money management service in the same vein as Mint. It's of an odd but growing number of services that take all your accounts and concentrate them into one system while performing complex analysis on your spending patterns.\nOf course, for folks to trust all the details of what their money is doing to a website on the Internet that has only a very short reputation, some very extraordinary promises must be made - promises of security, privacy and benefit.\nThat's why it's puzzling that Wesabe today released a mashup of their service and Twitter.\u00A0 Don't get me wrong, I love the heck out of Twitter, and I think Wesabe and web apps of it's ilk are quite interesting.\u00A0 Given the history of Twitter and that it occasionally has been known to have some odd database malfunctions that can expose Tweets to unquthenticated users, it isn't a particularly bright idea to make a move that direction.\n\nBut that's what's happened.\u00A0 It was announced at Wesabe's blog as well as at Twitter's blog earlier today:\n\"...you can now add transactions to your Wesabe cash account through Twitter. This is a great way to keep track of you spending on the go \u2014 just text Twitter the details, and it will show up automatically in your accounts. Or, use whatever other Twitter client you like.\"\nWesabe already automatically tracks all electronic and bank account transactions, but if you have cash on hand, it's sometimes difficult to remember to go home first thing and enter that into your ledger.\u00A0 Tweeting it to Wesabe, though, is an easy solution - albeit one fraught with privacy problems.\nI stopped using I Want Sandy for the same reason. I Want Sandy is a virtual assistant that has the ability to schedule appointments via Twitter.\u00A0 Unfortunately, I've accidentally made a few direct messages public, which can be embarrassing sometimes, and sometimes just inconvenient (if Sandy doesn't pick it up and I miss the appointment, for instance).\nUltimately, this bit of integration is an interesting talking point, but not something I'd ever use. If I can't trust Twitter to reliably handle my appointments, I certainly can't trust it with financial data."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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