Indeed, we do have those two issues to some degree. However, your data is available via export from our web services API, and we’ll be adding things like CSV export for your lists shortly. We absolutely believe that you should own your data, and it should go with you anywhere you want. If there’s a specific format you’re looking for, please do let us know!

Second, yeah, we’re working on the database-of-movies thing. IMDb’s Terms of Service prohibit screen scraping, and licensing their content is rather expensive for a startup of our size, so we haven’t gone that route yet. we’re trying quite hard to stay above board and only pull data from sources that make their data explicitly available.

Instead, we’re backed by Amazon’s data, so any time you perform a search that comes up empty, you can click the “external search” option provided, and we’ll hit Amazon and see if we can find the title you wanted. You’ll be able to add titles to our database from there, even if Amazon doesn’t know about them.

Again, thanks for the feedback, and keep blipping!

Edit: Hah, Jonathan got here before me. :)

1. We actually do allow you to export your data via our API, or the RSS feeds we make available to you on your profile. We’ll be making more data available to export and call via the API soon as well.

2. We are definitely looking to integrate more data from foreign Amazon sources. Look out for that in the nearish future.

Thanks again!

I have tested blippr a couple of days during the closed beta. I did like it, but forget to use it. I guess it has more value when you can integrate it with services like iGoogle or social networking websites which you visit a bit more often.