Announcing the Dopplr 100
Today we’re opening up Dopplr to frequent travellers at 100 international companies and organizations. If you have a valid email address at one of the Dopplr 100 organizations you can join at www.dopplr.com/100.
Many thanks for all the constructive feedback we’ve received from Dopplr travellers over the last months. We’re doing our best to keep improving the service while keeping it simple and beautiful.
Here’s the release:
Dopplr welcomes business travellers from 100 major enterprises
Amsterdam – September 26, 2007. Dopplr, the online service for frequent world travellers today announced that it will open up its invitation-only social network to business travellers from 100 leading companies and international organizations.
The list of invited organizations includes international businesses, top brands and cool challengers as well as not-for-profits. Among them are Google, Unicef, IBM, Wieden + Kennedy, Virgin, Louis Vuitton, The Economist, Apple, McKinsey & Company, and Nokia.
“We’ve gotten great feedback from existing Dopplr travellers at many of these international companies,” said Matt Biddulph, CTO and co-founder of Dopplr, speaking at Picnic, Cross-Media week in Amsterdam. “Their feedback helped convince us to open up the service to a larger group of business travellers.”
The full list of the international companies and organizations can be seen at www.dopplr.com/100. Frequent travellers with a valid email address at one of the Dopplr 100 organizations can join from that site. Once a person joins, he or she can then invite other trusted friends and colleagues to share future travels.
“Dopplr is the first site for business travellers who want to share their trips with their international networks of friends and colleagues,” said Lisa Sounio, CEO and co-founder. “We help them discover they’ll be in the same place on the same day, and many of them prefer a dinner conversation with old friends, to an evening of room service and email. We know we prefer it.”
A simple, relevant service for active world travellers
How does Dopplr work? Dopplr lets you share your future travel plans with a group of trusted fellow travellers whom you have chosen. It also reminds you of friends and colleagues who live in the cities you’re planning to visit. For example, Dopplr might tell you that three of your trusted friends and colleagues will be in Barcelona when you are planning to be there.
Dopplr was built by an international team of world travellers with deep experience in technology and design. The Guardian newspaper recently chose Dopplr as one of 10 independent Internet companies to watch. With offices in Helsinki, Finland and London, UK the company is backed by a premier international group of investors.
Lead investor Martin Varsavsky believes in the simple execution of this idea: ”Dopplr is like the iPod of social networks. It is very valuable to know where your friends and colleagues will be and where in the world you will meet them next. This is the one thing that Dopplr does really well.”
For more information contact:
Lisa Sounio, CEO email: press at dopplr dot com
The list of the Dopplr 100:
180Amsterdam AKQA Accenture Adobe Amazon Apple Art Basel Aston Martin Audi BBC BBDO Argentina BMW Blizzard Blyk Bob Helsinki Bruce Mau Design Camper Centaur Media Cisco Citibank Clinton Global Initiative Conde Nast Traveller Contagious Continuum Creative Commons Creative technologies Crispin Porter + Bogursky Deloitte Droga5 Ebay Electronic Arts Facebook Fallon London Financial Times Freitag Goldman Sachs Google HSBC Hakuhodo Haymarket Publications Hubert Burda Media IBM ICANN IDEO Infosys Intel International Herald Tribune JPMorgan JWT Jump Associates KPMG Kessels Kramer Kone LG LVMH Lenovo LinkedIn Louis Vuitton MUJI McKinsey Media Republic MediaCatalyst Microsoft Modernista Mother MySQL Naked New York Times Nike Nokia OECD Oakley Ogilivy Toronto Open society institute Opera Oracle Outblaze Peacock Poke Procter & Gamble Pöyry Red Bull Rediff Robert/Boisen & Like-minded Samsung Sony Ericsson Splendid Strawberryfrog Sun TBWA Taivas The Economist The Guardian ThoughtWorks UPM Unesco Unicef United Nations Virgin Group Voxiva W+K WPP Washington Post William Morris Agency Winkreative Wipro Wired Yahoo
Not really related, but awesome that you’re using the Dymaxion map.
Congratulations Dopplr. Let’s show corporate people how we all make the best out of our business trips. There is no reason why travelling for work cannot get us closer to friends. Many times, this may be the one occasion that you hook up in one place!
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This community that is travelling is so small!!!!
Especialy the French one.
if you did not know http://www.lepetitjournal.com.
That is an incredible way to get in tuch with the Francophile of the world (local communities)
D’ailleur si qq’un est interesse de developper le concept au US, il y a des choses a faire.
A+
Im curious to learn more about dopplr. I work at Amadeus.com and maybe there are some opportunities on both sides
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Just noticed Infosys and Wipro on that list, but not TCS, Asia’s largest IT services company. Any particular criteria you guys used?
Personally, Id love to use Dopplr, given that I travel at least once a week.
Dymaxion cubicle…
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Please can our airline “Sterling” join the top 100 ?
OK I know you already have 100 but you could
a) take yourselves off
b) just add us, nobody will notice
c) just add us, and rename it the 101
d) wait till one of the 100 goes bankrupt because all the staff are Dopplring and flying around the place