February 11, 2008 – 9:10 am,
by Dan Gillmor
In a column entitled “The Coming Ad Revolution” in today’s Wall Street Journal, famed thinker and investor Esther Dyson puts Dopplr into an emergent social-media context:
Look at Dopplr (where I plan to become an investor), a site for travelers. I list my trips, and see how they intersect with my friends’ itineraries. “Oh, we’ll both be in London April 4? Let’s get together!” Or, “Juan and Alice will be in town next Tuesday. Let’s hold a dinner!” You can imagine or visit equivalent approaches for books (a hypothetical Amazon 2.0, new and more personalized), clothes (Glam.com and Stardoll.com), and even money management.
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January 30, 2008 – 8:08 am,
by Dan Gillmor
According to the Guardian, a executive poll ranked Dopplr among “media sensations to watch” this year:
Search giant Google, its mobile developer platform Android – and James Murdoch – are the media sensations to watch in 2008, according to a survey of media executives and consultants carried out by the Guardian Media Group. GMG, which owns the MediaGuardian.co.uk website, asked 120 influential digital practitioners to predict the brands, sites and people to watch this year. Respondents picked out the social travel network Dopplr.com, the popular teen site Bebo, tech giants Apple and Microsoft as well as TokBox, the online video phone service.
We are naturally delighted, because we aim to be an essential service for frequent business travelers. Thanks to them for their support.
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December 21, 2007 – 2:25 am,
by Dan Gillmor
We’ve just turned on a cool feature that many of you have requested: an easy way to act on trip coincidences — email from individual trip pages.
Go to any of your trip pages (it’s the “More details on this trip” link in the list of your upcoming places). Then look under Coincidences, on the right side of the page.
Assuming one or more of your fellow travellers either lives there or is going to be there at the same time, you’ll see another link that says “Sent them an email?” Click that, and we take you to a form that lets you check boxes next to the people to whom you want to send messages, with a box containing the text that you’ll then compose.
There’s a detailed explanation on that page as well, regarding message privacy and other things.
We’ll be upgrading this feature soon, with (for example) a way to change the subject line to something you choose instead of the generic ” A message about my trip to [city name]” –
Let us know how it works for you.
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December 13, 2007 – 6:53 am,
by Dan Gillmor
The BBC, covering LeWeb, had extremely kind words for us. In a story entitled “Europe can ‘lead web technology’,” the Beeb wrote, in part:
Europe has its success stories as well as the Valley. Last.FM was sold to US media company CBS Corp. for $250m this year and many think Dopplr, a social network for business travellers, will be the next big company from the continent.
Dopplr announced at LeWeb that it will let anyone who wants to use their service to register for free, shifting from an invitation only basis.
By telling Dopplr who your friends are, and where you are travelling, it will tell you when you and your friends are in the same city.
To globetrotters who attend conferences such as LeWeb, the service has proved popular, and by opening it up to allow anyone to register, Dopplr is entering its heavy growth phase.
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December 9, 2007 – 6:26 pm,
by Dan Gillmor
UPDATE: A new and shorter tour is now available.
A major design goal of Dopplr has been simplicity: We believe you should be able to use the site with almost no special help other than what’s in front of you on each page.
That said, we’d like to introduce a “Dopplr Tour” page that we hope will highlight some key features for longstanding Dopplr travellers as well as new ones. If you are new to Dopplr you can sign-up here.
Please take a look. Let us know how we can make it better. Like the service itself, we’ll be improving the tour as time goes on.
Meanwhile, here we go:
Continue reading…
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November 21, 2007 – 1:53 pm,
by Dan Gillmor
In our bursting-at-the-seams London office, some Dopplr people. From the top left, clockwise, are Tom Insam, Matt Biddulph, Matt Jones and Boris Anthony.
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November 18, 2007 – 6:50 pm,
by Dan Gillmor
We are thrilled to see that in this New York Times Q&A, WIkipedia founder Jimmy Wales cites his “Favorite non-Wiki Web-site”:
An invitation-only travel site called Dopplr.com. You put in your travel schedule and link to your friends. It allows you to see where everyone is. I love it.
We’re pretty fond of Wikipedia, too…
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November 15, 2007 – 6:26 pm,
by Dan Gillmor
NY Times: Better Airline Tracking Software Could Mean Fewer Stranded Travelers and Less Frequent Delays. And now, after upgrading their software, airlines claim they can make good on promises not to strand passengers. Those vows will be tested as the holiday travel season begins and winter storms descend on airports across the United States.
This is good news — if the system works.
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– 5:33 pm,
by Dan Gillmor
Few people travel more than the good folks who work with the NGOs that do such important work around the world these days? So today we’re opening up Dopplr to travellers from 100 top NGOs and nonprofits.
Anyone with a valid email address at one of the Dopplr NGO 100 institutions can now join Dopplr. Just go to www.dopplr.com/ngo100 to start sharing your trips.
The Dopplr NGO 100 follows on our earlier opening up of the service to business travellers at 100 major companies and international organizations, and then our opening to 100 top business schools.
For more background on Dopplr and its backing please see:
Dopplr Receives Funding from Premier International Team: Varsavsky, Ito, Hoffman and Klein invest in online social-travel service
The full list of the Dopplr NGO 100:
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November 12, 2007 – 3:32 pm,
by Dan Gillmor
The folks at Mahalo have created a nifty “How to Use Dopplr” page — better than the one I was working on, ahem…
There’s also a video here at Blip.TV; we emphasize that the video is tongue-in-cheek, that is, not entirely serious — actually not remotely serious. But it’s hilarious. (Caution: the default is to run when you open it; so if you’re in an office be aware that music will play.)
Thanks, Mahalo!
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