Blippy
| Industry | Personal finance, Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | December 2009 |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California |
| Key people | Ashvin Kumar, Chris Estreich, and Philip J. Kaplan (Co founders) |
| Products | Rich Internet application |
| Revenue | N/A |
| Website | http://blippy.com |
Blippy is a social media sharing site operated from Palo Alto, California by a company of the same name, for users to post and follow each other's updates about their purchases of goods and services. It has been described as the "Twitter of personal finance",[1] and is often compared with Twitter[2] because it is based on that company's open sharing model. One purpose of the site is to facilitate discussion and comparison shopping among people who are connected with each other online.[3]
[edit] History
Blippy was founded by Ashvin Kumar, Chris Estreich, and Philip J. Kaplan. Blippy launched on $1.6 million of financing from a number of prominent venture capital firms, including Charles River Ventures and Sequoia Capital, and angel investors Evan Williams, Jason Calacanis and James Hong.[3][4]
On April 23, 2010, social media guide Mashable revealed that Blippy had allowed Google to index detailed transaction information, thus resulting in four users' full credit card numbers being exposed to the public.[5] A blog post from the official Blippy blog claimed the incident was "a lot less bad than it looks"[1] and apologized for their mistake of putting credit card information in a hidden div tag during the beta test period of the website.[2] This extended information was indexed by Google and was viewable in Google cache.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Rafe Needleman (2009-12-14). "Blippy launches the Twitter of personal finance". CNET. http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10415308-250.html.
- ^ Anthony Ha (2010-01-14). "Blippy, the Twitter for credit cards, gets funding from Twitter co-founder". VentureBeat. http://deals.venturebeat.com/2010/01/14/blippy/.
- ^ a b Mary Pilon (2010-01-14). "Are You Ready to Tweet Credit and Debit Card Purchases?". Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/01/14/are-you-ready-to-tweet-credit-and-debit-card-purchases/.
- ^ MG Siegler (2009-12-23). "Blippy Already Showing Off $1 Million Worth Of Your Credit Card Purchases". TechCrunch. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122301803.html.
- ^ Jennifer Van Grove (2010-04-23). "Blippy Users’ Credit Card Numbers Exposed in Google Search Results". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2010/04/23/blippy-credit-card-numbers/.
- ^ Philip Kaplan (2010-04-23). "Blippy And Credit Card Numbers". Official Blippy Blog. http://blog.blippy.com/2010/04/23/blippy-and-credit-card-numbers.
