This week’s vein of online ore can be found at www.groupon.com

Groupon provides a service for vendors and customers alike, by making group discounts more accessible to the general public.  Every day Groupon offers a group discount in the form of a special coupon that only “activates” if enough people sign up to meet the requirements specified by the vendor.

For the consumer this means a chance at great discounts on wonderful services, a chance which improves when they tell their friends, but which comes with no risk if the offer falls through.

For the vendor, Groupon …

This week’s vein of online ore can be found at www.mint.com

Mint.com is a free online accounting site that you can use to track your bank accounts, debit obligations, and investments; plan budgets; set goals; and receive alerts when there is suspicious or off-plan activity on your accounts.

Once you give Mint permission to monitor an account it will update your records automatically every time a change is made to the account, giving you real time graphs and charts showing you where your money is coming from and going to, and how close you are to meeting your …