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Swipen with the Swipely
I started using a new social sharing service called Swipely a few weeks ago. The service takes charges on your credit cards and allows you to expose them to a sort of Facebook like news feed. Now before you freak out about privacy, they give you enough control on what you want to post and strip out private information so basically people can just see where you were and when you were there.
It is sort of like Foursquare, in essence I feel like I am checking in, but since I am too lazy to do that this is much better for me. So everywhere I swipe my credit card gets posted to a feed which can then become a discussion.
For example, I bought a satellite tracking device called Spot. This is what that looked like on Swipely:
As you can see a conversation then came out of that purchase. This social discussion from specific purchases is really fun and leads to lots of great findings. In fact I have already found a few restaurants by following other people on Swipely that I am going to try out.
I think that this service has the right mixture of privacy, automagic and information to really become a powerful social place in the future. The service is currently in private beta, if you want a invite ping me. It is definitely one of those things that you have to try to get a feel for why it is so cool.
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Just to avoid any comments about the competing service Blippy. I tried the service and just did not like it as much as Swipely, for many reasons I think that Swipely has figured out the perfect mix in this arena.
