If you’ve got it, flaunt it.
That’s the philosophy behind Blippy, a Silicon Valley company that lets you automatically share your credit card purchases with the online world. It’s a lot like posting status updates or photos to Facebook, only potentially more revealing about your personal financial resources. You can even sign in using your Facebook or Twitter accounts.
The service also works with online stores like iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, StubHub and GoDaddy. If you sign up, your purchases are displayed — with product images, where applicable — in a constant stream on the Blippy.com homepage.
Blippy was the subject of a monologue recently by Comedy Central TV personality Stephen Colbert. It’s just part of a trend of information overload that has included the geo-social networking service Foursquare, which lets users “check in” and earn points as they visit various locations and was recently shown to be a potential lure for home robbery by the Dutch website PleaseRobMe.
It’s tough to imagine the few people still living off plastic wanting to share their credit card history with the world, so I see this becoming more of a way to catalog their song downloads, movie rentals and concert attendance.
What do you think? Is this too much information — or in this plugged-in world, is there even such a thing as too much information?
