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Blippy publishes your credit card transactions to the web
You knew the trend toward transparency on the web would reach this point eventually: there's now an app that lets you automatically publish every credit card purchase you make to the web, where friends can comment and interact with them, Facebook-style. It's called Blippy.The idea of showing your friends everything you buy obviously raises some privacy concerns. Some purchases are embarrassing, and sometimes you might just want to be off the grid. Blippy suggests using a separate credit card for the service, so you have control over which transactions show up and which don't. On the other hand, Blippy makes location-based social networking almost automatic: if you share your purchases in real time, your friends know your location in real time, no check-in necessary.
Blippy will also integrate with other sites, like iTunes and Amazon, to show more details of what you bought. That's pretty cool, actually, because it's more than my bank and credit card websites show me. Sometimes it's easy to forget what you spent that $40 on at Amazon. Even if you're not cool with sharing your whole retail life with the Internet, that extra information might make a private Blippy account worth having.
What do you think, Download Squad readers? Will Blippy catch on? Would you use it?
[via TechCrunch]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsaDec 13th 2009 6:09PM
i bet they will be out of business within a year.
StormtrooprDaveDec 13th 2009 6:09PM
I can't see why anyone would want to do this. And why do we bother telling people about identity theft when they are willing to tell everybody every last detail about themselves anyway?
JackDec 13th 2009 6:11PM
I wouldnt use it, and I don't see anyone in the world who would. People would say this guy is boring, all he buys is fuel.
I would also be conncerned to give a website my credit card transaction details, and what they could possible do with that information.
richard.gaileyDec 13th 2009 6:41PM
I can't think of a worse idea for an app.
RichDec 13th 2009 6:50PM
The sad thing is this will probably go big and get intergrated into Facebook and Twitter and all those other stupid Social Network things.
I can think of a bunch of people who would this because they actually think people care about them.
Bryan PriceDec 13th 2009 8:14PM
I think this one is pretty stupid.
Alex PatellisDec 13th 2009 8:27PM
this is freaky. stalkerish. and really. absolutely. awesome! love it(: sign me up!
jsmorleyDec 13th 2009 8:52PM
Is this some kind of April Fool's Day joke that has lost its way?
danhawk911Dec 13th 2009 9:43PM
so who is to blame when some gets stalked and hacked and slashed to bits here. I me come on why tell everyone where you shop and what you bough this will only lead to more break ins of your house and car.
jfjbDec 13th 2009 11:07PM
s.t.u.p.i.d.i.d.e.a.a.n.d.s.t.u.p.i.d.p.e.o.p.l.e.
Period.
NeoprimalDec 13th 2009 11:37PM
I'm not going to call it a stupid idea or say it won't catch on because there are MANY things I see people sharing on facebook, myspace and twitter that I personally would not.
The service seems to be safe in that there are no location details there? But I could be wrong. It's actually kind of sad that this, as a service is able to do more than our bank and credit card companies currently does for us.
That being said, for some people it may be fun to share info about certain purchases. But it's a little odd to have to watch or censor what you buy based on what you have signed up on Blippy.
And let's not forget, this is a social tool - so it's def. not catering to paranoid "everyone wants to steal my identity" folk. I wouldn't use it, but I wouldn't judge anyone who chooses to.
Sax25Dec 14th 2009 12:11AM
Jessica spent $2300.00 at Best Buy
|-> Mark hey, Jess.. what did you get?
|--> Jessica oh I bought a LCD TV and a Blu-ray player for my new place.
soon after...
..in local news, a young lady was robbed of all her electronic items which she purchased.
NeoprimalDec 14th 2009 4:11AM
@Sax25
.... who is Mark?
1. How does Mark know Jessica? (is he a friend, a bf, an ex-bf, an acquaintance, a co-worker, a stranger twit...etc)
2. How does he know where she lives? (he's a frriend, a bf, an ex-bf, an acquaintance who's been to a party at her house, a close co-worker)
If he's 'close' enough to know her personally in any way and where she lives then wouldn't it be safe to say that she'd probably tell him she got a new LCD and Blu Ray anyway, and that she'd be just as screwed then? I mean of course, he could be just outside her circle of friends, but still....it's highly doubtful.
Otherwise:
He'd be some stranger schmuck who
1. doesn't know who she is
and
2. doesn't know where she lives
michas_piDec 14th 2009 12:12AM
This is absolutely retarded.
enerGIDec 14th 2009 2:29AM
LOL, It seems to me like Data Mining for the dumb unsuspecting idiots who sign up to this rubbish.
KaitieDec 14th 2009 4:45AM
Honestly - not sure where this will go.. where is the utility, the problem solving?
If you want your friends to know where you are, why wouldn't you just use a well-established location based service that already has credibility in the market?
Say, for example, Rummble - http://www.rummble.com.. it's got new check-in functionality that allows me to instantly show my friends where I'm at as soon as I arrive (even before I make a purchase!) and data mines from Twitter to show me what Tweets are happening nearby.. way more utility than anything else I've seen in the market.
Dave ForsterDec 14th 2009 5:37AM
All we need now is a service for sharing bodily fluid over the internet and i think all bases are covered. Anyone care to suggest a name for it ?
I'll start : wankr
NotRocketboyDec 14th 2009 7:09AM
Isn't this what Eric Schmidt was really talking about?
If you don't want it searched, don't post it.
jfjbDec 14th 2009 10:29AM
sorry, what I meant to say also is this: stupid people use and do stupid things.
What comes around...
jfjbDec 14th 2009 10:30AM
no, I'm not sorry