Blippy is my pick for startup to watch this year (with Square being close by). Blippy enables people to automatically share their purchases done through a variety of services, such as Amazon, iTunes, Netflix and better yet their credit/debit cards, with their followers. At first glance many will be shocked and wonder why they would ever want to use such a service but that only brings up memories of people saying the same thing about Twitter just a few years ago. The concept behind Blippy is crazy enough that I believe it will take off rather quickly. In fact, they recently announced they are already tracking over $1M in transactions.
My Blippy Profile – Some aesthetic elements of Blippy are noticeably inspired from Facebook and Twitter, but that’s because they work well.
First off, for those worried about the security of providing such a service your bank credentials, it is no different than what Mint does; encrypt your account information and then outsource the rest to a trusted PCI-compliant and ISO 27002 certified service like Yodlee.
Rather than sounding like every other blogger being skeptical of Blippy due to privacy issues associated with sharing such financial information, I fully embrace Blippy and have linked my primary bank account in addition to my Amazon and iTunes accounts. The last decade has proven that people can safely lead completely transparent lives online. First it was blogging, then social networks and the rise of photo and video sharing sites, lifestreaming, Twitter and so on. Let’s face it — the majority of Gen Y and Gen X-ers having no problem sharing lots of information about themselves online. I believe social financial data sharing through services like Blippy is naturally the next step.
Linking accounts to Blippy
That’s not to say that some privacy elements are critical with a service like Blippy. In fact, they suggest having one credit/debit card as your social Blippy-linked card and have it linked to your Blippy account to share all transactions. I only have one card I really use all the time, so I have that linked and make use of some of Blippy’s privacy features like previewing and hiding purchases. I have found that there is often a delay before transactions appear on your profile so there’s no worry if you made a purchase you don’t want others to see; you can hide it before it goes live, or after.
Arguably the best feature of Blippy is the superior control over what is shared. You can preview and hide purchases manually at your discretion. For example, if you don’t want people to know you spent a lot of money on alcohol one weekend…
Blippy is fairly early stage, but I expect them to have a filtering feature in the near future. For example, if I never want my account to show trivial expenses that I feel would otherwise just add noise to my Blippy feed, like filling up at the gas station, or simply purchases that should not be shared for privacy reasons, like gluttonous visits to a particular bar or two, I could make a list of businesses that should never be shared. At the moment hiding purchases is a manual process for each transaction. Users may temporarily pause sharing from a particular card or account though. And of course some users may opt for complete lockdown and have a protected account that can only be viewed by approved users.
Users can see recent purchases by business/retailer
Blippy also gives you some control over purchase names and locations. You can do a quick search to add the location of the business. Unfortunately, I had to do that several times for separate purchases at the same restaurant as there was no way to make a global change to transaction names. However, Blippy does/should notice the same businesses and states how many times users have interacted there.
Blippy lets you rename purchases and add location information. Often credit/debit card purchases have cryptic and not too explanatory names. Also, probably a good idea to pause sharing on your linked accounts when visiting Vegas.
Utility
Okay so you might still be thinking “I use Twitter.. but why the heck would I use this?” Here are a few use cases. For one, you can see if you’re overpaying for anything as your friends will see what you bought and paid (certain accounts like Amazon, iTunes and Netflix provide itemized lists of what you purchased instead of just displaying price and business) and be quick to chime in if you got ripped off. They can also point you to helpful resources about that new camera you just bought. In this economy it’s a great way to find good deals through your network and comparison shop — albeit after you’ve already purchased the item. Or Blippy might end up just showing how much money you waste.
So.. does it work well?
Going back to the filtering idea, I think that will be vital to Blippy as it the numbers of users increase by orders of magnitude. If most users simply link all their accounts and don’t actively manage or utilize such an automatic filter, your homepage could become very saturated and noisy. At the moment some purchases made by the same person get clustered together and have a small expand link, but I think that’s just the beginning.
The homepage of Blippy can be a bit noisy at times with lots of nondescript purchases.
That being said, Blippy works very well with interesting purchases and conversations form around them:
And other times lots of great commentary can be found.
Want in? Here are some invites..
Blippy is currently in private beta and currently has around 1,000 users, according to my unscientific pagination math. I have secured 50 invites to give out (Thanks Ashvin!). Click through to this blog post (for those of you in RSS readers) and the invite code will in be the first comment below. Follow my Blippy account at @Paul.
Thoughts? Would you use Blippy? If so, would you share it all or just a few select accounts? If not, what do you think it needs before you would consider using it?
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Paul, I love Blippy! I received a special invite code from Jason Calacanis a while back and have really enjoyed it so far. Nice write up on a very promising service.
Hey, nice article. I never thought about using Blippy for price comparison. I was finally able to get in via your invite code, so I’m really looking forward to checking it out. Thanks for the invite!
This is definitely interesting. I particularly like the idea of being able to find/broadcast deals through your friends with a concrete number (with taxes, shipping etc.) Will give this a try, thanks for the post!
I’ve heard about Blippy but now I can say I know Blippy! Thanks for the helpful review, Paul!
blippy is cool. commenting and reading comments on how other people spend their money is pretty sweet.
That’s just cool. Only thing that’s a little different is that Twitter/foursquare’s usually based on intentional updates (more control), but Blippy automatically updates whenever you buy something, with the exception of blocking transactions or the delay in posting. Thanks for the invite; I’ll definitely have to give it a try.
Thanks a million for the invite!
Great review Paul! I had no idea Blippy even existed. It is certainly a novel idea, but I’m not sure it will take off. Here’s a couple of reasons why:
1. Needs a better way to block purchases. Think about purchasing gifts or, say, possibly embarrassing expenses (mani/pedi?). Facebook Beacon tried this, and they are now settling a class action lawsuit.
2. I don’t want to know I got ripped off. This may be a personal thing, but I don’t want my friends to tell me that I overpaid for something. It makes me feel like an idiot, and I’d rather opt out of that feeling.
3. It’s not item-specific enough. I haven’t played around with it yet, but it looks like it just shows the retailer in some cases. For places like restaurants, what I ordered is much more important than the bill total.
I’d love to be able to compare a roll-up of my spending trends from something like Mint with my friends, but I don’t really need to see their every purchase. It seems like Blippy could turn into a great service with a few tweaks here and there, but right now it isn’t something I would use.
Thanks again for the review!
Great review (I like your style with the various things over the years, thanks), and thanks even more for the invite code! I kept clicking on thier Twitter page, and never got there in time, so many thanks :)
All the best for 2010
Just another “Me” product for all of those self-centered losers in the world to show everyone what they are doing. FAIL.
Rats, all invite codes used up!
Paul, as always, this is a great write up, but I don’t think that I’d ever use the service. Mainly, either I buy mundane things (watch out, Scott just spent $129.36 at Trader Joes). That is boring, who cares? Or I buy expensive things (Scott just spent $1,000 a night at the St. Regis) and I’ll be perceived as a rich jerk. Either way, I lose and Blippy gets a bunch of information about my odd purchasing habits.
Thanks for stopping by Scott – I still have to reply to your email! Holiday rush.. I’ll get on that soon haha.
I had strong initial doubts/concerns about Blippy, but decided to give it a try anyways to see what all the fuss was about. (http://blippy.com/CoryOBrien) Surprisingly, I found some interesting purchases that friends were making at the App Store, and can now see this thing actually being useful. I’m hesitant to call it the startup to watch this year, since I think 2010 is going to be the year that location based services take off, but if you tied an LBS into a purchase history service like Blippy so that purchases and locations could be updated in tandem, I think you’d have a winner on your hands.
For me, the win with Blippy is how automatic the whole process is. Imagining a combo LBS/purchase history service, I can see something where you check into a place like Starbucks, and it automatically updates with the drink that your order or the food that you buy. Put those two together, and I think you’ll create a service that has some real value beyond just the ‘hey, look where I am’ aspect of many of the current LBS’s.
Definitely an interesting space to keep an eye on though, so I can’t wait to see what sticks around and gains traffic as the year goes on.
Good review Paul (and thanks for the invite). Also thanks for inspiring Paul Buchheit to post his entire Amazon purchase history :-)
I’m solidly in the “don’t see the point of this” camp. I’m sure they’ve done their due diligence in the security area, but putting highly sensitive bank account information out into the ether (again) just for the purposes of people seeing what I’m purchasing seems ridiculous. At most, this strikes me as one of those “hey maybe this is cool, let me create an account, use it for two weeks, and abandon it” web apps.
why would i wan’t to know what my friends are buyin
I read your review a while back, when you posted it, and today I noticed that Blippy made CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/21/blippy.philip.kaplan/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Yours is a great review! Thanks for being so thorough.
Thanks for the comment Cristina! … you heard it here first!! Haha always wanted to say that.
I signed up for blippy and added itunes and amazon. I also added one of my credit cards, and then was like woah..this shows every single thing you buy or transfer money. I dunno if I like that much…way too much info on the internet to give to people
Another worthless social networking site, why anyone cares what other people purchase is beyond me, this is quite a pathetic website.
Hi Paul,
You should really read this: basically Blippy user credit card’s are flowing thru Google…ehm, er..
http://www.digitalbd.info/?p=489
Hi faredigi – I knew about this the day of and I personally talked to the founders of Blippy about the matter when it happened months ago. It was only for a handful early beta users.
posted my thoughts on Blippy.com http://bt.io/CVDv (with 50 invites!) Let me know what you think with a comment!
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Interesting via @Stammy: posted my thoughts on Blippy.com http://bt.io/CVDv (with 50 invites!) Let me know what you think with a comment!
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Have we not crossed the line of over exposure? Wait… is there a line?
Great review RT @Stammy: posted my thoughts on Blippy.com http://bit.ly/8lG4mi (with 50 invites!) Let me know what you think with a comment!
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Review: Blippy (“What are your friends buying?”): Comments http://url4.eu/13RNu
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Review: Blippy (“What are your friends buying?”) http://bit.ly/8s78aH
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Well this is great because I always want to know what my friends are buying oh my GOSH WHAT ARE THEY BUYING THAT I’M NOT BUYING I MUST CONFORM TO BE ACCEPTED!!!
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Well, I think we can close the polls 361 days early. We have a winner for worst idea of 2010…
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OpenNetworkers.info: Review: Blippy (“What are your friends buying?”): Blippy is my pick for startup to watch this yea http://url4.eu/13Sgp
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Still fascinated by the appeal of Blippy http://bit.ly/6phe01 is this an example of a ‘next big thing’ perceived as a toy initially?
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I can understand what’s in it for Blippy when I grant them access to my transactions — it’s a gold mine — but what could possibly be in it for me except a little embarrassment about how often I eat at Serious Pie?
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I can understand what’s in it for Blippy when I grant them access to my transactions — hell, it’s a gold mine — but what could possibly be in it for me except a little embarrassment about how often I eat at Serious Pie?The "don’t overpay" mantra I keep hearing rings shallow. There are plenty of online comparison shopping sites to take care of that.
In aggregate, it might be interesting to see what my friends are buying, however? Music, books, and restaurants might be interesting?
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I can understand what’s in it for Blippy when I grant them access to my transactions — it’s a gold mine — but what could possibly be in it for me except a little embarrassment about how often I eat at Serious Pie?The "don’t overpay" mantra I keep hearing rings shallow for several reasons, the first being the plethora of online comparison shopping services available to me. In aggregate, it _might_ be interesting to see what my friends are buying, however?
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-Review: Blippy (“What are your friends buying?”) http://j.mp/5CyIt8
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This is lovely and all, but what problem does this solve? I just don’t have a "need more friends telling me I missed a better deal elsewhere" problem.
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Review: Blippy (“What are your friends buying?”): http://bit.ly/4KPrNH Comments: http://bit.ly/7Fa9j0
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"what my friends are buying" – yeah that’s exactly what they’re going after IMO, the whole "deal finding" aspect is secondary at best. I’ve found a few neat iPhone apps people purchased and books they’re reading. And of course a very nice camera Jason Calacanis bought that I can’t afford.
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As we’ve done with other nascent start-ups, I’m sure we’ll all do a pretty bad job at foreseeing how it ultimately gets used, including me, but I want to throw this thought out there because I’m seeing a lot of criticism that’s very high-level:"Discovery" is something all these social sites, at the bare-minimum, do pretty well, and people use. If the social object is music (last.fm), a link (Facebook/Google Reader/Twitter), Goodreads… at the very least, saving money aside, Blippy is showing you what people you are likely be interested in (because they are friends or people you otherwise respect + follow) are buying. And you’re probably at the very least, gonna wanna click over and see what it is.
To deny Blippy this utility, is to deny all social software of the discovery utility.
Since SO much human activity has commerce underneath it, the potential of Blippy to do all the same stuff the rest of the Internet is good at "How this person fixed their bookcase," "Who that person uses for bike repair," the potential is pretty clear, if a little low-level.
I question not the potential of how sharing consumer activity could be useful, only individual executions of it.
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Like all other nascent start-ups, I’m sure we’ll all do a pretty bad job at foreseeing how it ultimately gets used, including me, but I want to throw this thought out there because I’m seeing a lot of criticism that’s very high-level:"Discovery" is something all these social sites, at the bare-minimum, do pretty well, and people use. If the social object is music (last.fm), a link (Facebook/Google Reader/Twitter), Goodreads… at the very least, saving money aside, Blippy is showing you what people you are likely be interested in (because they are friends or people you otherwise respect + follow) are buying. And you’re probably at the very least, gonna wanna click over and see what it is.
To deny Blippy this utility, is to deny all social software of the discovery utility.
Since SO much human activity has commerce underneath it, the potential of Blippy to do all the same stuff the rest of the Internet is good at "How this person fixed their bookcase," "Who that person uses for bike repair," the potential is pretty clear, if a little low-level.
I question not the potential of how sharing consumer activity could be useful, only individual executions of it.
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As we’ve done with other nascent start-ups, I’m sure we’ll all do a pretty bad job at foreseeing how it ultimately gets used, including me, but I want to throw this thought out there because I’m seeing a lot of criticism that’s very high-level:"Discovery" is something all these social sites, at the bare-minimum, do pretty well, and people use. If the social object is music (last.fm), a link (Facebook/Google Reader/Twitter), (books) Goodreads…
At the very least, saving money aside, Blippy is showing you what people you are likely be interested in (because they are friends or people you otherwise respect + follow) are buying. And you’re probably at the very least, gonna wanna click over and see what it is.
To deny Blippy this utility, is to deny all social software of the discovery utility.
Since SO much human activity has commerce underneath it, the potential of Blippy to do all the same stuff the rest of the Internet is good at "How this person fixed their bookcase," "Who that person uses for bike repair," the potential is pretty clear, if a little low-level.
I question not the potential of how sharing consumer activity could be useful, only individual executions of it.
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Blippy is apparent twitter for your purchases. http://is.gd/5MkqR The privacy concerns and potential for abuse scare me.
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No idea. It’s a damned brazen idea though. The value of the data is obviously huge, they just have to figure out some value proposition for the users (it’s obvious from the other reactions that technically astute 20-35 year old men won’t be their target demographic…).
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I only skimmed the article so might’ve missed this, but you’d hope they’d work affiliate links in there on products and potentially split revenue with users. Even then, it’s a pretty big step to hand over a bunch of your logins just to scrape a couple of cents from your handful of followers.Once I ran a list of my ideas past a venture capitalist. He liked a good number of them, but for a few of them, he simply said "What problem does this solve?" and within a few seconds I’d realised that those ideas were likely duds or, at best, up-hill battles.
I think it’s a good question to ask early in any idea brainstorming.
Store cards and rewards cards are a similar goldmine of information, but they provide quite strong incentives – frequent flyer points, discounts, etc. Not to mention, less risk.
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“The last decade has proven that people can safely lead completely transparent lives online.” Say what!? http://bit.ly/6YI0vq
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There is a small amount of value here in that you and your friends can discuss good deals but you may not feel compelled to take up an offer until a friend that reckons it’s a good deal actually does themselves. Apart from that there isn’t a lot of value to the user.I’ve thought about various implementations of this to do with affiliate marketing, but I wouldn’t go as far as to link accounts, the value there would more like the people that have brought this item also brought type thing we see today.
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A review of Blippy…I love its potential! http://is.gd/5MpVQ (and I also know it will horrify most people)
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A review of Blippy, which will add transactions to the reputation ecosystem of the future. #galapagus http://is.gd/5MpVQ
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Why don’t I just publish an RSS feed to my bank account?WTF is wrong with people. Are we really becoming this narcissistic? Don’t give me the "deal comparison" bullshit, because honestly, who shops outside of Amazon, Newegg, B&H these days? Who doesn’t already consult their knowledgeable friends before big purchases?
I dunno, maybe I’m a dinosaur, but I was raised to sort of keep those details on the DL AND I live in NYC were it isn’t necessarily the best idea to be broadcasting my major purchases right along side my full name.
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Twitter verticals seem to be an emerging trend (dailybooth, blippy, others?). I think that the follower / RT model is a great way to do collaborative filtering.
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Facebook tried this already. They called it Beacon. It was a colossal failure.
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Including the dollar amounts is what pushes it over the edge. The number of ways this is helpful is massively overwhelmed by the number of ways it could get you into trouble.
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Review: Blippy “What are your friends buying?” (Paul Stamatiou) http://goo.gl/fb/q2Wl
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What problem does Twitter solve?
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Fair enough, but what problem did Twitter solve?
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Fair enough, but what problem does Twitter solve?
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Just curious, are these purchased on Kindle? You must have a big house to store all the books you read!
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No, I prefer real books that I can easily share with other people.
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Wow thanks for the listing Paul (and linking to my Blippy review)! I had this HN page open in a tab for a while, hoping to go through it and pick out some good books to buy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1026296
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taking a look at @paultoo’s post listing his Amazon order history http://ff.im/dNYhS (inspired by my @blippy review http://bt.io/CVDv )
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thanks for sharing! awesome list. what is your blippy username? would love to follow future purchases. :-)
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Many interesting titles, but I would be MUCH more interested in your reviews of the ones you’ve actually read (for example the book Chi Running and the shoes Vibram Five Fingers – as I get older, injury-free running is getting harder :-) )
This list just adds to my information overload – please post reviews every now and then to help me filter the list (yeah, I’m lazy – but take it as a compliment that I would trust your opinion :-) !)
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Be sure to read "The Man Who Was Thursday" — Chesterton was brilliant!
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Step one is admitting you have a problem.
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- building profile and spreading word about own business/products is harder without it- longer-format writing (blogging) takes too long and can be too much of a commitment
- Facebook is a walled-garden and (at the time?) wasn’t as suited to businesses
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do you share your books publicly in your local area using web services or only privately?
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I’d suggest "Breakthrough Rapid Reading" by Peter Kump.
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Hope you paid your taxes.
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Definitely read Stumbling on Happiness.
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Avoid the Osho book. Read Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene if you haven’t already.
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Tufte’s "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is a real gem; as is SICP. Given one has sufficient experience, it can be read in a breeze (just skimming over the exercises and checking how you would do it–but the interesting part is how much material they pack into this "introductory" book)
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Good call on paying $10 for the Wired subscription… when I paid $5 on eBay it took 6 months to start.
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I’d recommend #155 (Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything). Though the author, IMO, is a little bit utopian (or too much enthusiastic, optimistic) about the future.
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I see you bought an Arduino. Did you do anything useful with it?
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Hoe open wil je zijn op internet? Al je aankopen ook gelijk op twitter: http://paulstamatiou.com/review-blippy-what-are-your-friends-buying
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Paul Stamatiou (@stammy) says “Blippy is my pick for startup to watch this year” We’re floored & hope to meet expectations! http://3.ly/9rB
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Paul Stamatiou (@stammy) says “Blippy is my pick for startup to watch this year” We’re grateful & hope to meet expectations http://3.ly/9rB
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Paul Stamatiou (@stammy) says “Blippy is my pick for startup to watch this year” We’re grateful & hope to meet expectations http://3.ly/9rB
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Review: Blippy (“What are your friends buying?”) – http://su.pr/8A0F4n
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Review: Blippy (“What are your friends buying?”) http://ff.im/-dONZr
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I have some friends who are "ultra efficient" in finding the best deals for just about everything.And me being the lazy types more often than not will just follow them and buy the same stuff from the same place if I need that stuff.Blippy will be pretty useful for that
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I hope you actually do read all this nonfiction. I’m literally surrounded by my books in my home too (>5000) – but a far greater proportion is pure escapism, playing with ideas, sf&f.
Many of the same interests, but I get my nonfiction from libraries. 105 is funny (& on the web), 136 I get on podcasts with interest but mixed feelings, 87 is inspirational – but also read his blog and particularly those that have a similar theme, and get "Your Money or Your Life (Dominguez & Robin)" (buy!) and "The Millionaire Next Door" (library). On the applied psychology theme, I’d recommend "The Psychology of Persuasion – Influence, by Robert Cialdini" & of course the classic "How to To Win Friends & Influence People". You’ll probably also like Tony Buzan’s works and Edward de Bono (I particularly like "Water Logic", which isn’t as well known, but the content is worth revisiting again and again). The best stuff I’ve seen on happiness research has been presented on TV, not text, from the UK. I’m going languages by podcast too btw, listen when walking to work, sometimes practice on Skype. I’d strongly suggest that farming etc be learnt by talking to people and doing (e.g. I am involved in a community garden) rather than books, ditto physical activities, ditto leadership. Some of my leadership books have gems in the ways of expressing themselves, but emulating it is a whole different kettle of fish.
This whole Blippy concept and the changing societal expectations of privacy is rather interesting.
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Read #91 :)
@pinoystartup
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121 is my bible
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For me it’s not about living transparently. It’s about others (Blippy, in this case) making lots of money from my data. http://ow.ly/SW02
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For me it’s not about living transparently. It’s about others (Blippy, in this case) making lots of money from my data. http://ow.ly/SW6G
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I spotted 7 fictional titles in that list (4.5%). This is probably a similar ratio of fiction:nonfiction to mine (maybe a little lower). Not only am I slow reader but a lazy one also – I often feel that if I sit down to read a book it has to give me something "real" in return – I obviously interpret that as non-fiction.
I’d love to feel like I have the free time to read fiction but the only opportunity I take is reading kids books to my daughter.
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That sure is a lot of books.
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Based on @Stammy’s review (http://bit.ly/4Xs65V) I decided to give Blippy a try: http://bit.ly/4XXCzS I’ve got 9 invites left if you want 1.
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What I’ve been thinking could work for that is a list of "things I’ve got my eye on". Maybe a digital SLR in the $1-2k range, a better iPhone deal, flights from AU to the US, a fridge, etc. And then the clever friends could act as ‘buying agents’ to help source the best deal and take a cut along the way. The original deal-seekers could list a target price they’ve discovered so far and have the agents look to beat it.Agent offers could be on behalf of friends or friends of friends or ‘approved accounts’ to deter spammers.
All the original seeker wants is the best deal. The clever friend would be happy to help and split the affiliate cut with the host site.
With Blippy, I think notification of post-sale is mostly helping the followers (e.g., someone like you just wanting to buy what your friends have bought) and not people in the research or purchasing phase without a friend to follow.
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has @blippy invites. Check out what people say about this great site: http://3.ly/9rB http://bit.ly/6XeujT it’s so cool!!
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Review: Blippy (“What are your friends buying?”) http://bit.ly/87pAJI via Google Reader
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Nice list Paul,
From that list, I’ve read and liked,
87 – 4h work week, <= (An expanded and revised came out recently)
136 – NLP, <= Good starting book on Neuro Linguistics
141 – The Black Swan, <= Very good,
I haven’t read these yet, but I have been recomended
45 – Omnivore’s dilema
51 – Good Calories / Bad Caloriess
155- Wikinomics
Also, I’m assuming you published this list to share with us the books, so it might be a good idea to revise some of the items published that you might not have inteded to… *cough* n. 38 *cough* :)
Finally, don’t forget to recomend us the good books you find there.
Cheers,
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Likewise. But hat’s off to you for trying to read so much last year!! That’s an impressive list! I did my list a while ago… http://jpm.cc/how-2009-was-for-me-and-the-i-hav…;
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Hardcore Zen made more sense than any other Zen book I’ve read.
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I would like to make a pitch for reading to your kids every night (if you’re not already – probably part of the reason you’re not getting these other books read, right?) I recommend "The Read Aloud Handbook" by Jim Trelease. Talks about reading aloud to kids, and has a fantastic book list.
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