All this talk about Blippy reminds me of conversations people had about Twitter. If you were on hacker news in 07 and 08 people were trashing Twitter saying ho

All this talk about Blippy reminds me of conversations people had about Twitter. If you were on hacker news in 07 and 08 people were trashing Twitter saying how stupid it is. I bet many of those same people wouldn't say that now. In time this will become the norm once some safeguards are in place. Mint.com could facilitate and or create such a system (social banking/shopping) that has such safeguards and allows start-ups to plug into it.