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...high-pitched ululations - a call of celebration familiar across the Middle East. The 16-year-old bride, draped in a sparkly white gown, henna tattoos running up her arms, sat silent and tearful as she prepared to meet her groom for the first time. I hadn't meant to spend the night in this tiny village in a country everyone is pointing to as the next hub of global terrorism. But it's not every day that you get invited to an Al-Qaeda wedding. (Watch a video of road tripping on the edge in Yemen...
...want to know how I spend my money, go to Blippy.com Each time I make a purchase on my credit card, the amount I've spent and the name of the place I've spent it automatically pop up on this weird new site. Why would any sane person volunteer to publicize that information? Philip Kaplan, a technology entrepreneur and one of Blippy's co-founders, hazards a guess: "To tell people - friends, acquaintances, maybe even strangers - a little bit more about you." (See how Americans are spending...
Conversations on Blippy occasionally revolve around how people should spend less for things. If you pay more than $29.99 a month for a gym membership, expect to hear about it. But more often the comments are pro-purchase. That's especially true when people opt to specify what they're buying on sites such as Amazon, iTunes and Netflix (I like The Office too!). (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...eventually found that sharing details about what I was buying only made me want to spend more. With friends on New Year's Eve, I asked to be the one to purchase a bottle of champagne. In an odd way, I felt I would be ringing in the New Year with my Blippy compatriots. And that made me realize Blippy isn't primarily about spending habits. Like any other social-networking site, it's mostly about feeling as if you're surrounded by a particular group of people even when...
Coming off a better-than-expected holiday shopping season, retail experts are growing a bit more optimistic about the outlook for 2010, while consumers are expected to be, um, cheap. "We see a highly frugal consumer being thoughtful and cautious in the way they spend and the way they incur debt" for at least the first half of 2010, says Richard Jaffe, a managing director at Stifel Nicolaus...