Mouse & Credit Cards

Guess what I bought!

While listening to the latest episode of the This Week in Startups podcast where Jason Calacanis interviewed Philip Kaplan (of F*d Company fame), I learned about a new social network called Blippy. Blippy was founded in December of 2009 by Ashvin Kumar, Chris Estreich and (of course) Philip Kaplan with $1.6 million in initial funding. Blippy is interesting not because of the fact that it is a social network, but because of the niche it covers. Blippy is a social network that tells your followers what you are buying. How much information is shared of course, is determined by your user settings. (more…)