Blippy – Inspired by Twitter?
Twitter CEO Evan Williams made it clear through his tweet when he said “Many of the great businesses of the next decade will be about making information about our behaviors more visible.” Transparency is the catchword of the decade, and hot on Twitter’s heels is Blippy. And nope, Blippy isn’t Twitter’s competitor. In fact, what it does is it allows you to share your everyday online transactions with other people.

Just like Twitter, once the Blippy stream is updated with your transactions done in real time, your friends will be able to “like” it, comment on your purchases and participate in a discussion centered upon your purchasing activities. It’s just a matter of time before someone makes this a social networking community, and Philip Kaplan, Blippy’s co-founder managed to quash the controversies surrounding this new site and convinced us with his logic: “The big question that Blippy answers is ‘What are your friends buying?‘

Honesty begets transparency
While most would be reluctant to share their online purchases with other people, I think there is great potential behind Blippy. For instance, if you have just shared your purchase of an expensive but used leather bag on Blippy, friends will be able to comment and let you know if you’ve overpaid. You’ll almost instantly know if you are being ripped off or not! You can also spark interest amongst others in your online purchases and help them obtain items they never knew existed before.

Blippy is currently in private beta. Head over to the site and find out if you can be part of the initial invite-only beta participants.

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