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Blippy Automatically Shares Your Credit Card Habits With the World

by Jay Garrett on February 17, 2010

If you’re the type of person who likes to brag about the amount of cash you’ve splashed and what on – Blippy is calling you!

Blippy basically gives your credit card its own Facebook and Twitter account and each time the plastic gets spanked Blippy gets to know and then, so will everyone else – so, careful when shopping at more adult-centric stores ;)

You can log into Blippy via your Twitter or Facebook accounts and then you can select which stores (iTunes, Amazon, Threadless, etc) you want your transactions blipped about – so, if you have some shady purchases or buying gifts at least you have the choice whether or not this info is transmitted.

As expected, you need to enter your credit card details for Blippy to work – time to start the gulp-o-matic-a-go-go!!

Blippers? get to see popular purchases from around the Blipperverse via their feeds which could be useful if you want to see what’s trending – which may be more handy for stores than punters.

Would you be happy with uploading all your credit card details and then sharing your spending habits with the world?

Comment below (you don’t have to tell me your bank details!) :)

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HTC Legend – Apple Flavoured Android?

by Jay Garrett on February 16, 2010

HTC have been busy and have unveiled a number of new mobiles at the MWC.

Thing is that, in my opinion, none of them look as lovely as the HTC Legend.

The body is carved from a single piece of aluminum – Mmmmm….. unibody….. I hope Apple are watching! ;)

Under that gorgeous hood purrs Android 2.1 wrapped up in HTC Sense.

It’s fitted with a 3.2 inch capacitive AMOLED screen with a res of 320 x 480 pixels.

The Legend sports a 5.0 megapixel snapper that’s paired up with autofocus and flash.

This is all pushed along by a 600 MHz processor and 512MB ROM and 384MB of RAM.

There’s a microSD slot to increase it’s capacity as well as the now expected Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

I’m particularly digging this “helicopter view”. Perhaps another inspiration from Apple – think Mac OS X’s exposé.

With Helicopter you get to be able to pinch the screen to view all the five Android homescreens which helps you jump from widget to widget with ease.

Social Networked butterflies will get plenty use out of the new FriendStream. This pulls together all status updates, photos and links from your various social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook and Flickr are the ones supported at the mo), but you can still use the individual widgets and apps if that’s how you roll.

It’s out in Europe late March/early April – go on; admit it. It’s nice :)

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Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 Series – The Details

February 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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Barcelona’s MWC has been buzzing as to what Microsoft was going to bring to the stand.
Even though the Project Pink hasn’t been officially outed yet the Windows Phone 7 Series has.
“Smart design and truly integrated experiences” is how the big M describes it.
What is cool is the Xbox LIVE games and Zune music and video [...]

Google Buzz Rattles Microsoft and Yahoo!

February 10, 2010 Click to read more →
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Google looks like it’s fancying some of the social network pie with Buzz.
Google Buzz is based around Gmail and, like other places, lets you share information, photos videos and status updates. It also connects with Flickr and Twitter so you can spread your endless, pointless news with everyone you know and others that you’ve managed [...]

Vodafone Compass Squares up to be Next 360 Phone

February 8, 2010 Click to read more →
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Mobile-Review seems to have a bit of a scoop – this, they say, is the new Vodafone 360 phone.
Dubbed the Vodafone Compass (which may confuse people as Vodafone Compass is also the name of a GPS app), it could well be the third Vodafone 360 social networking phone.
What makes this interesting, apart from the shape, [...]

Brave Arms Social Shooter – 3D First Person Shooter Coming to Facebook

February 5, 2010 Click to read more →
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Do you need more than Mafia, Vampire and Farming games?
If you have a Facebook account you may have noticed that these ‘casual games’ are becoming increasingly (annoyingly) popular.
Personally I welcome ‘Brave Arms’ with open….err… arms as it becomes Facebook’s first ever 3D first person shooter.
Some may stand-up and say that FPS games cannot be [...]

Facebook Updates – Even Boring When You’re on the Run

December 23, 2009 Click to read more →
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This just shows how ingrained updating your social networking pages has become.
The last thing on my mind would be to send tweets or update my Facebook status – but not so Craig Lynch.
Lynch is actually an escaped prisoner and he’s been updating his friends about life on the run via his Facebook page – much [...]

Boxee Box – Possibly the Funkiest HD Network Media Streamer

December 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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I’ve been messing around with the cool n quirky Boxee software and am digging how it works and does its thing.
I know it’s been out for a while but the reason for this interest is the equally funky looking custom media player that they’ve just unleashed.
What this Boxee Box will do, apart from being great [...]

Twitter Tops English Word of the Year List

November 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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Ah, Twitter.
There’s definitely those for and those against the micro-blogging phenomenon but no matter which side you’re on chances are that you’ve uttered the ‘T’ word.
So much so that you’re responsible for making Twitter the most used English word of 2009!
Out of the 1.58 billion English speakers in the world, it looks like, plenty many [...]

Microsoft Zune Really Coming to the UK at Long Last

November 17, 2009 Click to read more →
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Zune coming to UK?
Yeah – that’s what I thought when I was told this.
I reckoned that these very shores were going to get a taste of the MP3 player that was designed to take on Apple’s iPod.
Ok, so almost four years later the Zune only owns 2% of the US MP3 market – a [...]

The Dead to get Special Memorialised Facebook Pages

October 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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Facebook has just announced that it’s bringing in a new feature that will allow friends and family to ‘memorialise’ the profiles of their loved ones who have sadly shuffled loose this mortal coil.
As well as being able to memorialise the deceased Facebook will also ensure that the friends and family are not needlessly reminded of [...]

ViconReview – Auto Life Blogging 30 Seconds at a Time.

October 19, 2009 Click to read more →
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You update your Twitter and Facebook regularly and your Twitpic and Flickr pages are awash with little glimpses into your life.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a specially designed camera for lifeblogging updates?
Say, a snap every 30 seconds?
The ViconRevue was developed to help stir the memories of Alzheimer’s sufferers, but now the Oxford-based [...]

Foursquare Social Gaming Comes to London – Earn Points and Badges by Eating, Drinking and Partying Round the Capital

October 8, 2009 Click to read more →
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Foursquare has announced that it’s bringing its location-based social networking game here to London.
The service that started in March awards points and badges for experiencing things in certain locations and is apparently quite the hit over in the USA but remains pretty much unknown on this side of the pond.
Foursquare is a location service-based social network/game.
It’s [...]

Wayve Hello to the Multimedia Post-It Note

May 6, 2009 Click to read more →
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There’s a Microsoft funded Research team somewhere in the UK developing a device that combines the office-gold that is the Post-it note with its own Social Network service called Wayve.
It kinda looks like a digital photo frame but this has a touchscreen that allows you to write messages on ’sticky notes’ as reminders to feed [...]

Chumby Squidges into UK

April 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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Chumby has finally been launched here in the UK.
The whaty-waht-what?
The Chumby is a hackable, Wi-Fi-enabled, widget-loving, media-playing squishy gadget with a touchscreen.
Ah………..great……….
Put another way.  The Chumby connects to the interweb and can be personalised with over 1200 widgets available on stuff including news, sports, weather, podcasts, internet radio as well as the option to share photos and [...]

Tweenbot Proves People Care – Heartwarming Fuzziness For Easter

April 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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Get ready for the most touching story ever involving humans and a little robot called ‘tweenbot’.
The smiley faced cardboard-bodied happy-go-lucky bot has a flag stating its intended destination but the cute lil’ fella can only move forward so it relies on the kindness of strangers to guide it and help it out of tricky situations.
Tisch [...]

Google Buying Twitter?

April 3, 2009 Click to read more →
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Now, unless you’ve just come out of a coma, you will have heard about the mico-blogging site Twitter.
It seems that Twitter could soon become part of Google.
According to TechCrunch Google is into advanced negotiations for the latest social networking addiction for an undisclosed sum.
Why would Google be interested in Twitter any how?
Well, it’s not just the [...]

Twitter From Your Car – Tweet On Road

March 28, 2009 Click to read more →
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Gear Live has received a survey asking whether or not they’d be interested in Twittering whilst driving around in their car.
Recently YouTube got in on the action and now you could be sending and receiving Tweets on the road.
The setup works via hands-free calling, voice-to-text, as well as text-to-speech so you can in fact hold [...]

YouTube Joins Twitter

March 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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The number of people joing the microblogging experience that is Twitter just keeps increasing and now none-other than YouTube has joined in!
The video-sharing site has now added a Twitter button to the ’share’ section of the site below every video link (along with the current Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Digg links).
When you click the Twitter [...]

TOFU Robot – Cute But Not For Eating!

January 15, 2009 Click to read more →

Looking like a distant relation to Furbee this is the oddly named TOFU.
As far as I’m aware it aint for the eatin my vegatarian friends - TOFU is the “squash and stretch” robot with OLED eyes developed by the smart-party over at the MIT Media Lab.
More importantly – HOW CUTE IS IT!!!!??!!!!
TOFU uses those techniques of social expression [...]

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