We’ve introduced “guest passes” - for the times that you want to send a specific trip to someone whether they’re a member of Dopplr or those not using the service yet (future members, we prefer to call them!)

They’re super-simple to use.

Just click “Share this trip” next to any of your trips…

A “Share this trip” box will pop-up.

In here you can type the name of any Dopplr member you know (we’ll show you a list of your connections)

Or - an email address of someone you want to share the trip with - perhaps a colleague or a family member who’s not on Dopplr yet. Of course you can enter as many email addresses or user-names as you want.

You can even share a trip with a group on Dopplr (more about these soon…)

You can add a short message if you want to give the person or persons you’re going to share the trip with a little bit more context.

Once you’re happy - hit send, and we’ll issue a ‘guest pass’ to the trip in email to non-Dopplr users, like this:

Existing Dopplr users will get an entry in their journal calling attention to the trip you wanted to share.

Click on the ‘guest pass’ URL, and there’s the details of the trip with any notes that have been added to it.

Remember that notes can be seen by any Dopplr user, and anyone you share the trip with. If you want to store more sensitive information with your trip, we’d recommmend you use the private description field.

You’re in control of the guest passes - and can stop sharing the trip with individuals as you choose.

So - that’s a quick tour of our new guest pass feature.

It would be remiss of me not to mention the inspiration we took for the user-experience of this feature from our friends over the road at last.fm, and over the pond at flickr who have nailed this - if we’ve made something 5% as nice as them we’ll be happy.

But, mainly we hope it makes it easier for you to use Dopplr with people not on the service yet, and of course, spreads the word for making the travel smarter with Dopplr.