Announcing the Dopplr “Singapore” release at the World Effie Festival
Today, we’re excited to announce the “Singapore” release of Dopplr. Matt Jones will be speaking at the World Effie Festival starting tomorrow in Singapore. The inaugural event brings together more than 2,000 business leaders, global agency heads, creatives, brand owners, and marketing professionals. For more on the “The Coming Ad Revolution” take a look at Esther Dyson’s column featuring Dopplr in The Wall Street Journal.
The Dopplr “Singapore” release focuses on three key improvements:
1. More Happy Coincidences
Dopplr now informs you of “nearby” and “near-miss” coincidences. You can see when someone adds a trip to a place near where you’ll be, and see who you’ll just miss by a day or two. Anytime you coincide with someone you can send them email by simply clicking on the “Send email?” link on the trip page. Dopplr will then send the email on your behalf and you can take it from there. We hope that both these features will help you get more out of your trips.
2. Adding trips easier than ever with calendar imports
Many heavy travellers have requested that Dopplr should automatically import future trips from electronic calendars. This is now possible. For example if you use Google Calendar you can now set-up Dopplr to “listen” to your calendar and add future trips automatically. See this blog post for more.
3. Local intelligence: tips on hotels, restaurants and unique experiences
Many Dopplr travellers have discovered the tips feature allowing you to share tips on hotels, restaurants and unique experiences in cities you know well. If you have tips you would like to share just go to the corresponding city page and click the tips tab to get started.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback. Over the next months we will continue building Dopplr into a beautiful and essential service for intelligent travellers worldwide.
Congratulations on your launch !
I used to be a professional traveler as a location photographer, but these days I travel ‘online’ more than anything else.
The thing that attracted me to dopplr at the outset was it’s wonderful clean design and calming interface.
Good luck and as I begin travelling in the coming months (spring and summer is big travel time for me) I will be usinf doppr more and more often.
Kit
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i love Dopplr, I just wish you guys would listen to my requests for adding new locations. I have been trying to add St. John, USVI and it doesn’t come up in your lists. The United States Virgin Islands should be listed as the Caribbean is a popular destination!
Hi Anna - sorry for the delay in getting back to you. The reason St. John, USVI is not coming up is that currently Dopplr is based around creating trips to cities or towns rather than areas or larger definitions of place, such as islands or territories. We’re currently thinking of ways to go about this while preserving the simplicity and benefit of the interface. Having said that St. John’s settlements e.g. ‘Cruz Bay’ are not showing up in our database either unfortunately. Again - sorry for the frustration. I’ll see what we can do for you about this.
I would suggest dopplr developers to come up with a “Travels I plan to make / places i want to go” section where travels I know I will make someday, but I do not know when!