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One of our most requested features on Swipely is an easier way to keep track of all the recent activity on “your stuff” — who has been commenting on your swipes? Who has started to follow you? And more… Well that’s a lot easier now with the new notifications and activity feed feature on Swipely! Look for a link to it at the top of your timeline in the sidebar. Here’s what your recent activity notifications feed looks like:

We also have improved profile pages, so your friends on Swipely can easily connect to your pages on Facebook, Twitter and around the Web. You can also see who else among your friends is following a particular person. Here’s an example from Chris Sacca’s page on Swipely:

Keep your eyes out for more Swipely improvements coming soon!

Posted at 3:03pm.

Today we’re proud to announce a bunch of cool new updates that make sharing your purchases with friends even more useful, more fun, and help you save money.

• Get on the VIP List: Swipely recognizes the best customers at any business with our VIP lists. The more swipes you post, the more likely you are to get on the VIP list at your favorite place. To help you land VIP status faster, we’re letting you turn on auto-posting of your swipes at specific places.
  
   
• Tagging: Now you can see where folks are swiping for any tag with just one click. You can tag a business (or product) on their page, or add your #hashtag whenever you’re swiping. Then, click on any #hashtag you see, and find all the swipes or businesses with that tag — for example, find a #romantic restaurant, or the best bar to shoot #darts!
  
  
• Facebook and Twitter integration: Now you can share your swipes on Facebook and Twitter. We even have a snazzy URL shortener, swi.pe!  You can also find and invite friends to Swipely from Facebook. And when you post your swipes to Twitter, we will integrate them with Twitter Places using Twitter’s new geo features.
• 6,000 retailers and growing: Since we launched, Swipely has grown from supporting about 100 online retailers to more than 6,000! When you add Swipely to your Gmail, we now import your purchases from nearly everywhere, from Amazon to Zales :-)
• Save money on gas: Swipely now helps you find the lowest price on gas at 120,000 stations, updated throughout the day. Find out how your gas swipes compare to the best deals in town, and share the money-saving love with your friends. Note: the gas price leader board feature is not yet available to all users, but we expect broad coverage by early next week.
  
   

Putting your swipes on the Map!
 Meanwhile, our “Spending Search” — the powerful technology under Swipely’s hood that lets us match your swipes to specific business locations and enables many of these new features — is working well and improving steadily.  Performance varies by U.S. bank.  Take American Express, for example: Swipely Spending Search matches 84% of AMEX swipes to businesses in our database. Our Spending Search works at banks large and small, matching 85% of swipes at Discover Card, 80% of swipes at Citi, and even 83% of swipes at smaller banks like Navy Federal Credit Union.  

See? We told you we’ve been busy. 

To check out these new features and start swiping, request an invite to try Swipely at http://swipely.com/, or talk to us on Twitter at @swipely. Happy swiping!

Posted at 9:00am.