Talk:Blippy

Kaplan not a founder

Per my edit, here is an interview with Kaplan where he specifically states he was a not a founder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjQqBf0Y_ao

70.91.104.252 (talk) 21:59, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm putting it back for the moment, because all of the major sources call him a co-founder. His own statement, made in an interview, is not a reliable source. What gives? That's a 2-hour video - at what time does he say he is not a founder? If he differs from all the sources, or there's a conflict among the sources, it would make the most sense to take it out of the lead, and then in the early history say something in the article about the lack of agreement among the sources. - Wikidemon (talk) 22:29, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, I might have been wrong. Starting at about 4:10 listen to the conversation. He states he was not one of the 'original' founders. But then says he is a co-founder. I'd say you are either a founder or you are not. But he does seem to refer to himself as a co-founder just not an 'original co-founder'. Watch the video and make your decision. I'll accept it either way. 70.91.104.252 (talk) 18:10, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

The Blippy website says Kaplan is a co-founder. I think in the above interview, he was just giving credit to the other guys for thinking of the idea. See: http://blippy.com/about —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.196.162 (talk) 07:36, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Mint.com

Why is this in See Also? Don't see the relation to his article. 70.91.104.252 (talk) 18:14, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

From CNN:

CNN reporter John D. Sutter asks Blippy cofounder Philip Kaplan whether there are any dangers in posting this sort of information:

   CNN: Is there any potential that this would expose someone to an attack on their financial information, 

or that it could be used against them?

   Kaplan: I don’t — we’ve all been taught that this is just something you don’t do. As an aside, when I was
a kid, we weren’t allowed to tell anybody we were going out of town, and we had timers in the house that would
turn the lights on and off so it would look like we were home. But now you tweet when you’re at dinner. … You put
your whole schedule on Facebook so people can like plan their robberies ahead of time. And I think the pros far
outweigh the cons in that scenario. … I think the risks in actuality are very small. Similarly, I think we have
this engrained thing that we’re taught, which is to not share this [financial] information, and we don’t really
know why.

That’s not the right answer to the question. Information found in Blippy postings (“blips”?) can be used against

them. Let’s go back to the example in the image above.

We find:

   * a user’s name
   * the name of a business with whom they had a financial transaction
   * how much they spent
   * for certain retailers, what they bought  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.14.96.4 (talk) 18:10, 18 March 2010 (UTC) 

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