Summary Box: Social site Blippy channels Twitter by asking users to post purchases
By APFriday, February 19, 2010
Summary Box: Blippy asks, ‘What are you buying?’
DO YOU BUY IT?: A free Web site called Blippy encourages people to connect accounts at online retailers to profiles on its site so they can automatically share purchases with friends.
WHY BOTHER: Some will see Blippy as oversharing central. But its creators believe it can help people learn about products and deals. Thinking about how everything you buy will be posted on Blippy could make you hesitate before making an unnecessary purchase.
THERE ARE LIMITS: You can hide certain transactions in your Blippy feed, or make it so that only approved friends can see what you’re buying.
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