Find and invite your existing social networks
This is part of series of posts reviewing things we found from our recent user-survey. One of the things you told us was that it should be easy to discover people on Dopplr. We’re going to continue to improve our search engine, so that you can find people you know are using Dopplr already – but that’s just part of the picture.
We call Dopplr a social tool – that is to say, something that gets more useful the more people you share it with. The benefits of safely sharing information and creating ‘social objects’ with people we trust is one of the most exciting things about the web.
However, we’re all getting pretty tired of telling computers over and over again who we trust, when probably there’s the same core list of people you communicate with on each new service.
We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible to use your existing social networks in Dopplr, both in terms of finding people already using Dopplr and sharing trips with them – and inviting those who don’t yet use it to join.
By going to “Find and invite”, you can do just that to find contacts across Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and LinkedIn – which has been especially popular and useful for finding the people you trust with your travel information.
Soon, we’re going to introduce a new feature that will keep Dopplr ’synchronised’ with your other social networks, so it will be easy to add connections that you’ve made with other tools.
Also, for those of you developing services or tinkering with code, we’ve taken what we use behind our “find and invite” feature and open-sourced it here.
While of course we hope more and more people start to benefit from using Dopplr, unlike some services, we won’t send email or messages to anyone without your permission. All we want to do is make Dopplr more useful to you – by fitting it into your existing online life.
Hey nice to hear that you’re trying hard to integrate as much networks as possible!
So what about Xing.com?
Wiki says about Xing:
“XING (named openBC/Open Business Club until November 17th, 2006) is a social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals. The company operating it claims that it is used by people from over 190 countries, albeit the majority of users are Germans. Available languages include English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian. By displaying how each member is connected to any other member, it visualises the small-world phenomenon.”
It’s one of the most used business networks in Germany and it has about 6 Million users, so it would be nice to connect Dopplr to Xing to synchronize the contacts we already have!
Wish you guys the best!
Keep on rockin!
Nils
way to go Dopplr!! this is a useful feature I was asking you for!
thank you.
gc
Thanks for this great site.
How about an import of outlook contacts?
Regards
doc