The Dopplr New York Release: Rolling out the Social Atlas
As part of our New York release this week, we’ve launched an important new set of features on Dopplr that we’re calling the Social Atlas.
The first part of it lets you build a record of places you’ve been in your home city and cities around the world, like quality restaurants and hotels – as well as other things you’ve explored.
The idea is that our collective travel knowledge will inform and improve the travel experience of all. Any places you’ve marked will be visible to the people that can see your travels on Dopplr.
In addition, your choices will be aggregated, anonymised and visualised into part of a unique overall picture of a city visible to all Dopplr users.
We’ve tried to make the process of marking places as easy as possible. Wherever you see a place you can click on the green “+” next to it to say you’ve been there. Click a second time to say you’ve been there and liked it. If you want to undo all of this, just click a third time.
Eventually the Social Atlas will be on mobile devices, part of a Dopplr mobile application which we’ll be launching very soon.
Here are some pages where you can start finding places you may know:
- Beijing: places to eat and places to stay
- Rome: places to eat and places to stay
- London: places to eat and places to stay
- New York: places to eat and places to stay
- Paris: places to eat and places to stay
- Helsinki: places to eat and places to stay
- San Francisco: places to eat and places to stay
- Barcelona: places to eat and places to stay
- Amsterdam: places to eat and places to stay
- Hong Kong: places to eat and places to stay
You can see all of the places you’ve marked.
Where else can you find places you’ve been?
On a city page – say London, New York, or Paris – look for the tabs eat, stay and explore.
You can search for a place such as: ‘Buddha bar Paris’
For the time being you can only mark places listed on Dopplr, but we will soon allow you to add places to the Dopplr directory. Currently our directory covers over 200 main cities, but we want this to grow. We realise this is an important part of keeping the Social Atlas we’re building fresh and relevant.
These features are still very much in development so please let us know of any feedback or ideas for how we can improve them. Thank you for your help.
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to stay in line with Web 2.0 guidelines, why not just integrate Yelp or another social online review site. There is already tons of content there that can be integrated.
This is off topic to the post, but not sure how else to respond.
Your survey you sent out through the Swiss research company? WHAT AN INCREDIBLE WASTE OF TIME. You cannot ask time-starved travellers to submit to a 15-minute survey, calculate percentages in their answers, and think through that many questions. I got to 50% and thought, what the hell am I doing wasting this much time on a survey?
I’m not against market research – I do that in my job. But I wouldn’t in a million years subject my enthusiasts, even, to that kind of survey. Go for 10 questions. Keep it short. Multiple answers. Done.
Sorry for the rant, just haven’t seen that kind of survey in some time, and IMHO, it’s not something I’d ever suggest for Dopplr.
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I agree with Eric,
I actually completed the survey, but I became annoyed at how much of my time I had wasted. Spend your time and resources where it matters, which means understanding emailed trip info like tripit, not following the whims of some fool in your marketing department.
Since you guys like percentages, I’m now 20% more likely to abandon Dopplr for tripit.
Is there a way to add restaurants to the city’s that niw have the social atlas?
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