Blippy : Tweet your credit card transactions online

16 Dec, 2009, by appsheriff || Topics: Fun

As services of internet advances, everything that we do is going social. However, you can always limit how much information we can share. Blippy is a new service which is launched in private beta. It is an interesting way in which, transactions made with your credit card is automatically pushed online, so that, others could see and interact with it.

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With Blippy, it is possible for you to see everything which your friends buy with their credit card as they do it. Besides giving details of the name of the product, Blippy provides information about their cost and related data. There is a lot of data which is being tied into the transactions that we make. Blippy takes them and make it social.

If there are transactions which you want to keep it to yourself, Blippy gives you the necessary service. You can limit the number of your friends to whom the information will be published. The idea behind this service is that you would have only one credit card which is your Blippy card. This creates some social dynamics due to the fact that you will start to notice your spending habits on your cards in order to show just a certain part of yourself.

Blippy is really simple as it employs passive sharing. You are not sharing anything by means of the message, but your actions are being pushed to the web automatically. Blippy is thus providing transparency into the daily activities related to spending.
Location-based social networking is made almost automatic by Blippy.

If you share the purchases you have made in real time, your friends will be able to know your location in real time; without any need of check-in. The trend towards transparency on the web thus reached this point eventually where you could share this kind of information with your friends.

Blippy also integrate with other sites such as iTunes and Amazon, in order to show more details of what you have bought.

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