Comments on: Blippy Caught in Apparent User Privacy Breach

By: Facebook Wants to Own All Your Social Graphs, Not Just One

Facebook Wants to Own All Your Social Graphs, Not Just One — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:29:51 +0000

[...] Trust: Payment services such as Venmo and even Blippy (which lets you share your purchasing habits) are interested in this graph, which relates to financial connections between people and companies. [...]

By: Swipely Aims to (Politely) Turn Purchases Into Conversations

Swipely Aims to (Politely) Turn Purchases Into Conversations — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:52:39 +0000

[...] with Blippy, the automated purchase-sharing service that has already launched (and already had one major user privacy slip-up). These sites also harken back to Facebook’s ill-fated Beacon activity-sharing project of a [...]

By: Babette

Babette — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:01:18 +0000

Does anyone know how they came up with the 46M valuation? Based on what metrics/users?

By: Blippy fails big time | Trends Updates

Blippy fails big time | Trends Updates — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:41:21 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:36:07 +0000

I still do not understand this service. Why in the world would I want to share with anyone what I purchased? Why would I care what a friend of mine purchased? We want to share things with other people online, but this is taking things way too far. This site will never really catch on with mainstream users.

By: David

David — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:08:53 +0000

It appears Google have stepped in and 'broken' the search. Nothing useful comes up any more.

By: KK

KK — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:39:20 +0000

This made me curious about the whole space to see who else is in the game. Liz - would be good to see an article highlighting other players. Kaboodle, ShopSocially, buzz.com etc.

By: Blip

Blip — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:29:36 +0000

Blippy should be glad about the $11m funding they received. At least they will be able to pay out all the users when they get sued. Will these payouts be posted on Blippy too? If not, hopefully they will have enough money left to post that last coffee shop purchase..

By: meks

meks — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:04:16 +0000

I 'deleted' my account there as soon as I heard this news. Not only does this "look bad" but it really IS bad, at least for the future success of Blippy.

By: Matt Heinrich

Matt Heinrich — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:52:59 +0000

This article isn't about merchants storing data.