| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.11.2014 | Blippy Returns With A Brand-New GIF Keyboard For iOS 8 | Ready for another GIF keyboard for iOS 8? Blippy has returned today with a new app that lets you create, save and discover new GIFs to use when messaging with your friends on your iPhone. The app serves to replace the earlier, also GIF-focu... |
| 14.11.2013 | Blippy Is Reborn As A Dead Simple Mobile App For Finding Ridiculous Gifs | You may remember the name Blippy from such startups as the one that shared your credit card purchases with friends.
The concept died. But the name lived on.
Another team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs bought the domain for Blippy, and they... |
| 31.12.2011 | Dead? Social Media’s Explosive Growth is Only Beginning | Social media, types of media where everyday people can publish and subscribe to what one another publishes, have changed the world. At least in the United States, though, their rapid expansion through acquisition of new users may be over.
F... |
| 25.07.2011 | Go FAQ Yourself With Philip Kaplan’s FaqMe | Blippy and FuckedCompany.com founder Philip “Pud” Kaplan is at it again with his whimsical and sometimes useful ADHD Labs experiments, this time launching FaqMe, a FAQing free service that helps people build snazzier FAQ and Contact Us page... |
| 05.07.2011 | Blippy's New Direction? Daily Deals For Artisanal Goods At Heartsy.me | Earlier this summer we wrote a post on purchase sharing site Blippy’s decline, titled “The End Of Blippy As We Know It.” While Blippy CEO Ashvin Kumar didn’t want to reveal what the team’s next step was at the time, we’ve now got a few more... |
| 20.05.2011 | Blippy discovers the limits of oversharing | Social data may be the next big frontier for startups, but there are limits to what people are actually willing to share. Specifically, product review site Blippy recently revealed that it has moved on from its initial vision of allowing pe... |
| 19.05.2011 | The End Of Blippy As We Know It | So it turns out that almost nobody wants people to check out their purchases. And also that just adding a social element to a feature isn’t enough to make it useful. The lessons of user adoption are sometimes learned the hard way.
Thus is t... |
| 09.03.2011 | Group-buying startup Offermatic pulls in $4.5M | New group-buying startup Offermatic grabbed $4.5 million in funding today as it seeks to distinguish itself in what is rapidly becoming a crowded playing field for online shopping.
The company, which came out of stealth mode in December, bi... |
| 18.02.2011 | Voyurl Is Climbing In Your Browser Window, Snatching Your Surfing History Up | It was back in July of last year that we first wrote about a service called Voyurl with the headline: It’s Hard To Tell If Voyurl Or Their Ads Are Creepier. You see, at the time, the still-in-stealth startup was targeting angel investors vi... |
| 10.02.2011 | You Can Now Punch People On The iPhone, Congratulations Humanity | Oh Western culture, when will you cease to amaze me! First the fact that you can buy a Julian Assange as Che Guevara shirt in the WikiLeaks “mall” and now this …
“Punch Your Friends” is an iPhone app created on a lark by Blippy co-founder P... |
| 21.01.2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| 09.01.2011 | Daniel Raffel's Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010 | Daniel Raffel is a former Yahoo product manager and a newbie entrepreneur. A year ago we asked him to write a guest post telling us about his favorite new products, projects and features of 2009. The post below is an updated list of his fav... |
| 07.01.2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| 06.01.2011 | Offermatic muscles into the group-buying bonanza with virtual coupons | New group-buying company Offermatic introduced an expanded automatic rebate platform today as it seeks to distinguish itself in what is rapidly becoming a crowded playing field for online shopping.
The company, which came out of stealth mod... |
| 16.12.2010 | Spabba Gives Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks A New Home | Spabba is a service quickly put together by Blippy co-founder Philip Kaplan to help you preserve all of your Del.ic.io.us bookmarks, in case its days are numbered. Kaplan wrote most of the Spabba code while grocery shopping in Safeway, usin... |
| 06.12.2010 | Rock with VentureBeat/DEMO at holiday party in SF tomorrow | If you’re an entrepreneur or other technology professional, come to our DEMO/VentureBeat holiday party in San Francisco tomorrow, Dec. 7.
We’re going to network and otherwise rock out at the Mighty Bar (119 Utah Street @ 15th). It will go f... |
| 12.11.2010 | Pud Revisits His Past, Launches An Email Newsletter Platform With TinyLetter | Email newsletters may be ready for a comeback. The fact is that despite the communications mechanism being old-school, publishers can put in less effort to get more views in an inbox than on a blog. AOL exec Bob Pittman has bet big on email... |
| 05.11.2010 | SwipeGood takes the hassle out of donating | The startup allows users to make small donations with each purchase
One of the most awkward situations, in my opinion, is when you’re walking out of a grocery store with a cart full of groceries and someone asks you if you want to donate to... |
| 26.10.2010 | Sephora Smelt It, Blippy Dealt It. Fragrance Retailer Takes Shopping Social | If you haven’t tried out Blippy since the company rather infamously launched last year as the social network for sharing credit card purchases, you should go back and give it another look. Things are quite a bit different now. And a new par... |
| 05.10.2010 | Blippy Users Sharing More Than $500K In Purchases Per Day | Users on Blippy, the controversial service which lets you share purchases and purchase prices with your friends, are sharing $500,000 in purchases per day, according a Tweet posted by co-founder Philip Kaplan.
To put this in perspective, us... |
| 26.09.2010 | Entrepreneur Boy Band Cover Flow To Play Disrupt After Party | Many of you may know Blippy’s Philip Kaplan, but many of you may not know that Blippy’s Philip Kaplan (Drums) is in a boy band with Mayfield Fund VC Raj Kapoor (Vocals/Gold pants), Investor Tim Chang (Bass), Facebook’s Ethan Beard (Guitar) ... |
| 09.09.2010 | Blippy Founder: 40% Of Shared Purchases Are iTunes, But Ping's No Threat (TCTV) | Over the weekend Philip Kaplan, co-founder of social purchasing site Blippy tweeted out a link to Steve Jobs demoing iTunes Ping, with the added sly comment ,“Looks like Blippy.” Curious about what Jobs’ movement into the social sharing spa... |
| 01.09.2010 | Why Apple’s Ping is about cutting out the social middleman | This morning at a press conference in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Ping, a social network for music that will be bundled into the next version of iTunes, its music software.
After ten iterations of iTunes, Ping marks Apple’... |
| 25.08.2010 | Colbert Tackles Internet Privacy: "Become A Disfigured Nameless Loner" | The Internet is one giant resume, Stephen Colbert posits in yesterday’s The Word: Control-Self-Delete. Colbert brings up Eric Schmidt’s now infamous “every person will be entitled automatically to change their name” statement and argues tha... |
| 25.08.2010 | Ben & Jerry's Samples The Double Rainbow. Blippy Calls "FIRST!" | Earlier this month, we pointed out that social shopping site Blippy had pretty much the best 404 page ever. It was a double rainbow all the way. Tonight, Blippy co-founder Philip Kaplan felt like he had some deja vu. Check out Ben & Jer... |
| 18.08.2010 | Swipely Opens to Public, But Are People Ready to Broadcast What They Buy? | The social shopping network Swipely, in private beta for three months, is opening up to the public today. Users upload credit and debit card information so the site seamlessly records where they’re “swiping,” then choose which purchases to ... |
| 06.08.2010 | So Intense! How to Create an Effective 404 Error Page | The social shopping site Blippy made a big splash in the tech blogosphere earlier this week with an unlikely feature: the most amazing 404 error page anybody had seen in awhile. The page features a rainbow and a cartoon unicorn who, when cl... |
| 04.08.2010 | WeShop lands $4.25M to find out how you shop | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
WeShop, an online consumer shopping network, toda... |
| 04.08.2010 | WeShop lands $4.25M to find out how you shop | WeShop, an online consumer shopping network, today announced it has secured a first round of funding for $4.25 million. Though the company is currently in private-beta mode, it claims to have already signed-up some 100,000 members, accordin... |
| 03.08.2010 | Blippy Has Pretty Much The Best 404 Page Ever. What Does It Mean? | Creating 404 pages (the error page you get when a page on a site cannot be located) has become something of an artform. Startups can earn major bonus points in the geek community for having a humorous one. And Blippy has just tapped a perfe... |
| 30.07.2010 | It's Hard To Tell If Voyurl Or Their Ads Are Creepier | A few weeks ago, we were alerted to a new site currently in stealth mode called Voyurl. As the name implies, the idea behind it is to make it so you can see what other people are looking at on the web (and to make your clickstream seen). It... |
| 18.07.2010 | WeShop Blends Q&A With Purchase Data To Socialize Shopping History | WeShop is hoping to shake up the online shopping space with its platform that allows consumers to share purchase information on a free and anonymous basis.
In private beta, WeShop allows consumers to pool their purchasing information which ... |
| 04.07.2010 | Oh, So That's What Blippy Does (Video) | When Blippy was looking for a little help creating an overview video for their service, I recommended that they take a look at Mountain View based Transvideo Studios. I know executive producer Rico Andrade there fairly well and have seen so... |
| 09.06.2010 | To Incubate or Not To Incubate: Kicklabs Incubator Launches in San Francisco | So you have a couple of people, a decent idea and that’s about it – what next? If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, then the answer might be Kicklabs, a new startup incubator launching today for very early-stage technology and online me... |
| 03.06.2010 | Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos | Editor’s note: The following is a guest post written by Robert Scoble, who travels the world for Rackspace interviewing tech geeks for building43.com. He’s one of the most popular (stalked) users of location-based services and has 8,215 fri... |
| 24.05.2010 | A "Blippy For Voicemail," Audioo Is A Fun Privacy Disaster Waiting To Happen | Audioo bills itself as the “Blippy for Voicemail”. As you’re probably aware, Blippy lets users share information that’s considered to be really private by most people (credit card transactions) with others – and sometimes, much more than ju... |
| 11.05.2010 | Blippy Swipes Back At Swipely With API Announcement | Today, a new service named Swipely launched with $8.5 million in funding to make everyday purchases more social. This, of course, is a direct competitor to Blippy, the controversial service which lets you share purchases (and purchase price... |
| 11.05.2010 | You Could See Swipely's $7.5 Million Round On Blippy, But You Won't On Swipely | While it’s easy to rag on Blippy for their controversial model (making credit card transactions social), and their security slip-ups (making credit card numbers social), it’s hard to deny that there is something compelling behind the idea. ... |
| 11.05.2010 | Swipely emerges and raises $7.5 million | Startup looking to take on social shopping by letting users share all their credit card purchases
After several of Blippy user's credit card numbers leaked onto Google search results, another startup has emerged to try and take on the, tell... |
| 04.05.2010 | Offermatic Is The Freak Love Child Of Mint, Groupon And Blippy | The best way to describe Offermatic is this – imagine if Mint, Blippy and Groupon went off to Vegas for the weekend, got wasted and ended up in bed together. Nine months later, out pops Offermatic .
Like Mint, Offermatic is a front end user... |
| 02.05.2010 | A Security Check At Square Ahead Of This Week's Launch | Earlier today, testers of the new mobile payment service, Square, got a scare.
Emails were sent out suggesting that users had changed their bank account information, and Square was emailing to let them know that the new account was verified... |
| 26.04.2010 | Mint founder Aaron Patzer makes a jab at Blippy’s privacy woes | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Aaron Patzer, the founder of personal finance sta... |
| 26.04.2010 | Mint founder Aaron Patzer makes a jab at Blippy’s privacy woes | Aaron Patzer, the founder of personal finance startup Mint, made a slight jab at beleaguered Blippy today. Blippy is a startup that lets people share details of purchases they’ve made with their friends, and it recently came under fire afte... |
| 26.04.2010 | Blippy's Security Plan: The Details | As I mentioned in Sunday’s post, Blippy’s founders were hammering out a new security plan to assure users that all their information, especially their credit card numbers, would be safe. They delivered this morning, in their latest blog pos... |
| 25.04.2010 | Blippy Not Hemorrhaging Users, Set To Unveil New Plan | Imagine combining your best and worst week ever into one— welcome to Blippy’s world. This week the site closed a new $11.2 million funding round, got its first picture in the New York Times (leading an article on the new wave of social medi... |
| 23.04.2010 | Blippy cofounder on credit-card leak: “It’s a lot less bad than it looks” | Earlier today, VentureBeat broke the news that some members of Blippy, a social-sharing site for shoppers, had their credit card numbers published to Google by Blippy’s servers.
Blippy cofounder Philip Kaplan, known to Web 1.0 oldsters as P... |
| 23.04.2010 | Amazon Earnings: The Big Loss You Won't See There | Amazon.com (AMZN) reported a rather obscure set of Q1 numbers yesterday, leaving investors confused and its share price shaken. Because Amazon hasn't broken out its numbers to isolate either the Kindle, its best-selling e-reader, or its rec... |
| 23.04.2010 | Blippy cofounder on credit-card leak: “It’s a lot less bad than it looks” | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Earlier today, VentureBeat broke the news that so... |
| 23.04.2010 | Credit Card Numbers Now on Google Thanks to Blippy (Updated with Blippy’s Response) | Blippy, the controversial site where the over-sharing, Web-connected generation can link their credit cards and share their purchases has just come under fire from numerous tech blogs as it has been discovered that people’s credit card numb... |
| 22.04.2010 | Blippy cofounder overshares what his “Twitter for credit cards” is worth: $46.2M | Blippy, a social networking site that lets users share information about what they’re buying, has raised $11.2 million in new funding. The Palo Alto, Calif. company now has a post-money valuation of $46.2 million — pretty good for a service... |
| 22.04.2010 | August Capital And CRV Spend $11.2 Million At Blippy. Valuation Now $46.2 Million. | As we first reported last month, Blippy has raised another round of funding. Following the initial $1.6 million angel round in January, the controversial service has just raised another $11.2 million.
As we expected, the latest round was le... |
| 21.04.2010 | Are Windows of Opportunity Quickly Narrowing for Startups? | Earlier this week, we reported on the fact that the first quarter of the year saw venture capitalist investments drop from the end of last year, but start at a higher rate than the beginning of 2009. In the article we mentioned the boom and... |
| 16.04.2010 | YouTube Launches Twitter-Like Channel Bulletins | YouTube has launched a new feature that allows channel owners to send text messages and links to videos to the front page of their subscribers’ YouTube accounts. It’s a cool, if logical, feature to offer and one that could make visiting You... |
| 04.04.2010 | Top VCs Debate Rising Startup Valuations [Video] | The venture capital valuations for still-have-that-new-car-smell startups like Quora, FourSquare, Blippy are reaching unprecedented levels, and we wanted to find out why. Top VCs Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and David Hornik came by the Tech... |
| 01.04.2010 | Blippy Does An End Run, Harnesses Gmail OAuth To Re-Enable Amazon Support | Early this year, Blippy, the highly controversial startup that lets you share your credit card and online purchases with your friends, ran into some trouble with Amazon.com. Namely, Amazon told Blippy to stop pulling in user purchase inform... |
| 27.03.2010 | How To Make Facebook, FedEx, And Amazon More Fun | Editor’s note: Should everything be a game? In this guest post, Gabe Zichermann argues that fun is good and that game mechanics will find their way into all sorts of products and businesses. Zichermann is the CEO of professional mobile soci... |
| 18.03.2010 | August Capital Bets Big On Blippy | Blippy is always fun to write about because so many people are enraged by its very existence. But all that rage apparently hasn’t stopped the company from getting lots of investor attention. In addition to landing a bevy of top tier angels ... |
| 15.03.2010 | The Meaning & Future of Blippy, the Credit Card Data Social Network | Would you broadcast information about your credit card transactions publicly on the Internet? That might sound frighteningly irresponsible, but serial entrepreneur Phil Kaplan says his new social network Blippy does that and represents the ... |
| 10.03.2010 | Blippy Gets A Facebook-Inspired Redesign And An Important New Privacy Feature | When Blippy launched a few months ago, the idea was to get the site up there as bare-bones as possible so it was simple to people. That makes sense since the idea of sharing your credit card transaction data was (and remains) highly controv... |
| 28.02.2010 | The Pitter-Patter of Little Features | I was out of the country for much of 2009, so it wasn’t until I spent two months back in San Francisco that I noticed a big change in the Web community. Babies. I’m not talking about whiny Millennials coming out of college and demanding ven... |
| 24.02.2010 | Guiltvault: A brilliant business idea that I'm giving away | Every entrepreneur is familiar with the moment. The moment when you stumble across an annoying problem – a problem that you’d pay money to solve – and suddenly a synapse fires in your brain.
“Holy crap, if I’d pay money to solve this, so wo... |
| 23.02.2010 | Are Aggregation Services Security Risks? | Do you like social aggregation and tracking services like FriendFeed, Google Buzz and Cliqset? If so, there’s another startup launching today that wants your attention: Strings. This service is focused less on social content sites like flic... |
| 17.02.2010 | Hollrr Takes Foursquare's Badge Strategy, Pins It To Social Product Discovery | The promise of social recommendation sites has been alluring for years. What’s not to like? Friends share neat products and services with each other, and online retailers sell more stuff in the process. But despite this appeal, there still ... |
| 06.02.2010 | Amazon Says No To Blippy | Blippy, the Twitter-like service that lets users publish the details of all their purchases, is just a couple of months old. But it already got Stephen Colbert’s attention (thumbs up). And now it has Amazon’s too (thumbs down).
Cofounder Ph... |
| 03.02.2010 | Stephen Colbert: Blippy Is More Exciting Than Going Through Old Receipts | Normally, it takes quite a bit of time before a startup gets any sort of mainstream spotlight. That’s not the case with Blippy.
Tonight, the controversial social credit card data aggregator was featured on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report. A... |
| 20.01.2010 | Is The Enterprise Cloud Coming To Us, Or Are We Coming To The Cloud? | At the annual Salesforce user conference this year, DreamForce ’09, the buzz was about its ability to merge people’s streams, Twitter for example, into their CRM solution.
A new question for the industry emerges: Will the Salesforce cloud r... |
| 19.01.2010 | Facebook Beacon Done Right? Retailers Start Embracing Blippy. | Readers seem pretty split about what to think of Blippy, the service which allows you to share your credit card purchases online. About half think it’s the next logical step in sharing data online. The other half think it’s just about the w... |
| 19.01.2010 | Blippy: Sharing your spending secrets | Article content
We can already tell people where we are, what we’re thinking, what we’re doing, our travel plans – nothing is sacred in the sharing spaces of social media where our every thought and action can be broadcast to our networks a... |
| 14.01.2010 | Blippy scores $1.6 million | San Francisco-based startup wants to be the Twitter of how you are spending your money
Blippy, a startup which lets you share online what you spend on your credit card, has raised $1.6 million in funding. The round was led by Charles River ... |
| 14.01.2010 | Blippy Shows Its Own Funding On Blippy. And Now Everyone Can See. | People love Blippy. Well, they love to talk about Blippy. And complain about it. And argue that it’s the end of privacy as we know it. But some people do actually love Blippy, the service which lets you share you credit card transactions wi... |
| 14.01.2010 | Is the Internet Finally Robbing the Greedy Financier’s Gravy Train? | The most amazing thing about the Internet is how many industries it’s wrecked. File sharing and iTunes forever changed music’s economics; blogging and other forms of online content have killed old media; and open source and software-as-a-se... |
| 12.01.2010 | Ok You Luddites, Time To Chill Out On Facebook Over Privacy | In 2004 everyone freaked out when Gmail launched because Google would be reading your emails to figure out what ads to serve you. “Privacy advocates objected to the advertising model, which involves Google’s robot eyes scanning every e-mail... |
| 04.01.2010 | Jason Calacanis' Top Tech Products (And A Political Rant) | Jason Calacanis lists his own favorite tech products after reading ours. His list, which was sent out to his mailing list earlier today, is below. Along with one heck of a political rant about the middle east and energy policy, which we hav... |
| 23.12.2009 | Blippy Already Showing Off $1 Million Worth Of Your Credit Card Purchases (More Invites) | Yesterday, Blippy opened its doors beyond a private group of users it had been testing with. Their invites went quickly (we have more below), and despite the obviously controversial idea of opening your credit card purchasing data to your s... |
| 22.12.2009 | How Blippy’s founders dreamed up a Twitter for your credit card (invites) | There’s a new site called Blippy based on a pretty provocative idea — it allows users to share all the purchase information from one of their credit cards.
Once you buy a movie ticket from Fandango or a cup of coffee from Starbucks, Blippy ... |
| 22.12.2009 | Open Your Credit Card Data To All! We Have Blippy Invites. | A couple weeks ago, when we wrote about Blippy, the new startup that allows you to share your credit card purchases online, it caused quite a bit of controversy. That was expected. Sometimes good ideas do. Sometimes bad ideas do. So which o... |
| 22.12.2009 | How Blippy’s founders dreamed up a Twitter for your credit card (invites) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There’s a new site called Blippy based on a prett... |
| 11.12.2009 | Want Everyone To See Your Credit Card Transactions? Of Course You Do. Meet Blippy. | As the Internet matures, slowly but surely everything we do in the real world is going social. But there’s a limit to how much information we can explicitly share on all the various services. A new service, Blippy, launching today in privat... |
