“Dopplr Moments”
We occasionally hear from people saying they’ve had a “Dopplr moment” — when the serendipity that Matt discussed at Reboot brought them together with someone in a happily unexpected way.
I’m guessing we’ll hear about more and more of those occasions.
I had two within minutes of inviting a couple of my friends to Dopplr. In both cases I discovered that they were going to be in Edinburgh at the same time I was travelling there… in one case we hooked up for dinner, in the other we didn’t – but it was great as I would have had no idea otherwise :-)
I call it a “Dopplr induced moment or meeting”. Realised a friend was coming over from Malmo to Stockholm via Dopplr and arranged for a meeting. This then became a “Jaiku induced meeting” as couple of other friends saw our jaikus and joined us. Classic.
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