Share Credit Card Bills Online with Blippy
Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media, writes about online privacy in his weekly column on CNN.com, in the wake of the launch of Blippy. A brainchild of Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey, Blippy allows consumers to post credit card transactions online.
The Web is radically reshaping our views on privacy, making it almost antisocial not to share, writes Cashmore. The benefits of sharing, he goes on, might begin to outweigh the risks of posting personal information online. With Foursquare, a service that lets an individual share his or her location with a group of friends, they already do: Those “checking in” to certain venues receive special offers from local businesses.
Other services are pushing the privacy envelope. This month, Facebook attempted make once-private posts public and users who idly clicked past a message about the new privacy settings have now (perhaps unwittingly) made much of their profile information public. Twitter had trained its users to be public by making its posts public by default from the start.
Blippy assumes that you have many credit cards and will share information about only one. It then logs and publishes your credit card purchases at select online stores like iTunes, StubHub and Amazon. The concept is both shocking and ingenious.
