New on Dopplr: The Past (with Pictures)
This week we’ve launched two super new ways to browse your trip information.
Trip pages
Every trip on Dopplr now has its own page that gathers everything we know about the trip. Follow the ‘More details on this trip’ link on your trip list to see.
Trip pages are a place to keep private notes, to read comments left by others, and to see who’s there at the same time. They gather related information: who do you know who often visits there, and who lives there. There’s a sparkline visualisation so you can see how busy the city is before and after your visit. As with everything else on Dopplr, trip pages are only visible to travellers you share trips with, and only display information from travellers who share trips with you.
You can now register your Flickr account with us, and if you look at a trip from the past then we’ll use Flickr’s API to pull in photos taken on those dates (and, for data packrats, any tagged with the machine tag dopplr:trip=xxx where xxx is the number from the trip page’s URL). If you use our Facebook app then we’ll do the same thing with your Facebook photos. Incidentally, this means you’ll be able to find contacts from Flickr who are also Dopplr users on our Invite Via Other Networks page.
We’ll be adding lots more detail and features to trip pages over time. If you’ve got ideas about what further information we can collect about your trips (or gather from other websites like we do with Flickr and Facebook), use the site feedback to let us know.
Journals
Your journal is your summary of everything that’s happening on Dopplr that relates to you – every trip you’ve taken, every new traveller you’ve shared trips with, and every travel coincidence. There’s a calendar widget so you can explore your trip history. This journal tab also appears on other travellers’ pages, so if someone shares their trips with you then you can explore their trip history too.
The journal has a Web feed that has all the same information in it. Subscribe to this feed in your newsreader and you’ll never miss a Dopplr update again. I put mine in the centre panel of my iGoogle homepage so I’m always up to date with my network of travellers.
Any plans to allow us to enter olde trips onto the site? Particularly with these “review past trips” features, I think that’d be handy.
Wow, great set of new features! Good to see you guys are still innovating and that Dopplr is growing more useful by the day. Thanks again for a great service!
Rod,
Yes, we’re working on adding old trips. I love the idea of entering all my travels from the past few years and having Dopplr retrospectively index my Flickr stream (and other information) into an online scrapbook.
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keep up the good work!
i look forward to seeing more enhancements on the journal page in the months to come (the calender view is a great feature and has lots of promise!)
Not sure why, but everytime I try to go to the journal page, Firefox closes. I’m sure I’ve had this with another site, but can’t remember what now…
Wish I could figure out what it is about that destination that’s triggering it though. Had anything like that?
I’d love to be able to email an itinerary I’ve gotten from an airline or travel agent to dopplr and have it auto enter a trip for me. Tripit does this nicely when you send an itinerary to plans@tripit.com.
Just joined, and am adding old trips to get the profile going – have lots of Flickr photos from these trips – will they be added?
James,
Yes, flickr pictures are associated with trips by the date on which Flickr says they were taken. This works for any trip, no matter how old.
OK, my old pics are showing up :)