Greetings, Swipers! Great news, Swipely no long requires an invitation - today Swipely announced it has opened its doors to the world. Now everyone can join in turning purchases into conversations, making shopping more social and changing the way we shop, share and save. Just head on over to http://swipely.com/ to get started :-)
In addition, we’re announcing some cool new Swipely features. To make swiping even more fun, we’ve started awarding badges based on where and what you’re swiping. For example:

Just a few of the fun badges you can win on Swipely:

Earn the food critic badge for reviewing 10 or more restaurants on Swipely.

Get around much? Earn the Frequent Flyer badge on Swipely for posting 5 or more airline swipes.

Popcorn anyone? Post 10+ movie swipes from iTunes to earn the movie buff badge.
Do you have ideas on new badges you think Swipely should offer? Let us know!
To celebrate Swipely’s launch, we are offering a promotion to give the first 1000 badge winners over the next month free movies, free music, free books and free app store credit for winning the “Movie Buff,” “Turntable,” “Book Worm” and “AppStore-A-Holic” badges (read the promotion rules and fine print). Hopefully this gives you a taste of things to come, as we’re working on even more ways to turn your swipes into opportunities to save money with your favorite businesses.
In addition, we’re excited to announce that across the top 10 banks on Swipely, our Spending Search technology is matching more than 70% of all swipes to specific businesses. This lets us put your swipes on the map, quite literally! We partnered with our friends at Localeze to help keep our database of over 14 million US businesses up to date.
New users joining Swipely now get suggestions on who to follow to help them get started. In addition to our magic recommendation of friends to follow, we now have a hand-curated suggested user list to highlight some of our most interesting and popular users in different categories:

If you have any nominations for new users or new categories to add to our list, drop us a line at support@swipely.com - we’d love to hear from you.
That’s all for now … have fun swiping!
Posted at 8:17am.