Hot this week: London
This week the Future of Web Apps conference rolls into London and brings many Dopplr travellers with it. Matt Biddulph, Dopplr CTO, is speaking on Thursday about how we integrate with the rest of the web. He’ll be explaining how microformats, OpenID, Facebook, social network portability and other new technologies can be used by developers to extend the reach of their applications beyond the websites themselves.
Looking at the aggregate statistics from our database, people are travelling from more than 80 different cities in 20 different countries. London is always a busy city for visitors, and not everyone will be coming here for FOWA, but this week the number of trips is more than double the norm.
Hey Guys
Great talk today - where can I grab the div and js to get my dobblr travel plans on my blog?
Cheers
James
Keep an eye on the blog - it should be live next week.
Hi,
I just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the talk today (and signed up for an account - thanks) and that it was great to see some really cool stuff going on - I especially liked the fact that the talk was followed by the FireEagle/PinPoint presentation and could only think how they would work so well together.
Thanks again!
All the best,
Anthony
I meant to ask too… when I noticed the F8 app during your presentation, I’m just wondering where I’d go to add that to my FB applications?
Hi! I heard your presentation at FOWA and we’re thinking of ways to incorporate Dopplr into our site at work. However, we did realize that by telling people to put a script tag in their page calling your site that you’re causing a dependency. If your site is down their page won’t load. Are you scalable enough to take on this responsibility or is this being addressed in other ways. We know how to do 3rd party calls so they will load last after the rest of the page loads so if it doesn’t show up then at least our page isn’t held back. BUT, alot of your audience won’t know this and will probably be wondering what’s wrong with their site if you have a failure.
Really like the idea you’ve got here. I’ve signed up :)
Hi!
I have an upcoming project, and from what I read here your app would seem to be a matching integration to it. yet is there a way to know more about what Dopplr is about?
many thanks..ah,yes, I signed up,too.
Hi Matt, sorry I missed FOWA and your talk.
I love the picture — have you thought about exposing this kind of aggregate info about your users on the site somewhere?
It would be great to see anonymised movement stats, in a voyeuristic way… you could even expose some aggregate stats through a feed or an API…?
matt,
is the presentation somewhere online for me to link-point-read?
tchau,
charlie
(dang, we need to meet some day - we’re 1 deg separated and i hear about you ALL the time)
The slides are online now at http://www.slideshare.net/mattb/coding-on-the-shoulders-of-giants