I recently found out about Blippy which allows you to automatically display various transactions in a way similar to that of Twitter in that your purchases are shared via feed to your followers. People can also comment on your transactions too. You can link your Blippy account to credit cards and accounts such as Netflix, iTunes, Woot!, etc. A feed entry will also be generated every time you rent a movie from Netflix or download media from iTunes.
Blippy kind of reminds me of the Facebook Beacon advertising system which ended in a class action settlement except Blippy is op-t-in and entirely voluntary. At this time I don’t particularly want or have the need to share with everyone all my transactions. I also find reading through people’s 7-11 purchases and Netflix rentals rather boring.
However I can see certain individuals making Blippy a useful tool. Perhaps a personal finance blogger or world traveller with truly interesting purchases might make for worthy feeds. Other than that I really don’t care if someone I know spent $57.34 at the supermarket.
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