Blippy credit card tracking service opens to the public
If you’ve ever had a mad desire to let the world see what you purchase with your credit or debit card, than you will absolutely love a new site named Blippy.
Blippy has entered into a public beta today, and now the exhibitionist in you can be unleashed as you share with the world what you purchase with your credit card. The site is somewhat like Twitter in that short messages are posted by you, but it is all done automatically. You provide Blippy with information about one of your credit cards, and then each purchase you make with that card is sent out on the site for all to see unless you mark your activity to be private. So, for instance, lets say you spend $3.47 at Starbucks, that will show up on your activity stream.
In the case of most merchants no one will know what exactly it is you purchased, but with retailers such as the iTunes store, Amazon, Zappos and a few others, what you purchased will be listed in detail.
Other users can add comments to your purchases so that a discussion can form around what you bought.
According to Kara Swisher at All Things D, Blippy has raised $1.6 million in capital from the likes of Sequoia Capital, Charles River Ventures, angel investor Ron Conway, Twitter CEO Evan Williams, Jason Calacanis, James Hong and Ariel Poler.
I admit I just signed up for the service, but I am not attaching any of my cards to it as I don’t feel it is anyone’s business where I spend my money, let alone how much I spend. I’m just waiting for the person who forgets they signed up for this service and rents a cheap hotel room by the hour.
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January 15th, 2010
It’s pretty amazing that several people think this is a million dollar idea, but it does speak to what Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook said last weekend. Nowadays everything is public, which makes sense at least on SOCIAL networks. I don’t know if I’d link my cards up either. But it looks like fun to watch.
January 16th, 2010
Can you imagine what it would be like if your friends and family signed up for this service too?
Christmas and birthday times would suddenly become a whole lot more challenging!