Acebucks, the developers of a virtual currency for social network Facebook, has raised real cash — $1.5 million — from a group of uberinvestors — Wallstrip's Howard Lindzon, Facebook board member Peter Thiel, Tribe.net founder Mark Pincus, among others. Why? Because virtual currencies like Flooz, Beenz, and several other Web currencies proved so successful, we're sure. [All Facebook]
We should have known that dot-com wonderboy Mark Pincus was maturing when he sold Tribe, his social network for Burning Man attendees, to Cisco earlier this year. After a few months cavorting around Aspen and partying with movie stars, he's settled down and gotten engaged to girlfriend Alison Gelb, who works at magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi and whom a friend describes as "a huge prize" for Pincus. As for Pincus? Not so much of a prize. Ever the romantic, Pincus gallantly waited for Gelb to recover from a momentary illness before popping the question.
We live in a Time Of Changes — little changes, sure, but still. Changes. Here are three. Um, of those. Of those changes. The little changes.
Guest feature by Beth Gottfried
