Tag: BLIPPY

Yesterday, the world of social shopping got a little more crowded, with the debut of Swipely, a network that, for the most part, borrows from Blippy's "Facebook for credit card purchases." Users can share purchases made with specified credit cards, and can sync their Gmail accounts with their Swipely profiles, enabling automatic forwarding of receipts from online purchases. There are, however, a ...

Note: Update after the break Blippy, a service that lets users share what they purchase, has shot itself in the foot by accidentally leaking users' credit card numbers, days after seemingly hitting the big time by raising $11.2 million and getting profiled in The New York Times. Owen Thomas of VentureBeat discovered that a simple Google search would reveal some users' credit card numbers, and ...

If the entire world can follow your every move on Twitter or Facebook, it only makes sense that they should be able to see everything you buy on Amazon, right? Right...? That seems to be the creative impetus behind Blippy, a new online service that allows users to publish their latest transactions, and see (and comment on) their friends' purchases, too. Think Facebook news feed meets credit ...