Comments on: Social Network Dopplr Connects You When You Travel

By: jim montek

jim montek — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:30:38 +0000

I think this social networking service is like a boon for all the travel loving persons to get in touch with each other. Thanks for sharing such an informative article.

By: Well-Traveled Angels Back Dopplr Again - GigaOM

Well-Traveled Angels Back Dopplr Again - GigaOM — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:50:02 +0000

[...] Malik, Monday, September 15, 2008 at 3:49 PM PT Comments (0) Dopplr, a travel-focused social network based in Helsinki, has raised an undisclosed amount of money from an investor group led by [...]

By: Sites that can help you travel better » Greece Travel Blog

Sites that can help you travel better » Greece Travel Blog — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:30:02 +0000

[...] Dopplr has been around for a while, but I know an increasing number of techies who have started using it, especially if they travel internationally a lot. It’s a mashup of a social network and a travel itinerary manager, and does useful things like let you know when you and those you are connected to are going to be in the same place at the same time. Plazes is a similar tool that I hear a lot of good things about. [...]

By: Melbourne Business School on Dopplr : Ameel’s Career & MBA Exposition (ACME)

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:06:37 +0000

[...] came across Dopplr in June last year via Web Worker Daily (‘Social Networking Dopplr Connects You When You Travel’ by Stephen Collins) and thought it was a great networking tool for people who travel a great deal: How often have you [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Location. Location. Location. - get the best out of 3 presence apps «

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:01:41 +0000

[...] of Dopplr (WWD review here), it’s the third app we’re going to look at. Dopplr goes global where Upcoming and [...]

By: Dopplr Invites auf maol symbolisch

Dopplr Invites auf maol symbolisch — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:44:31 +0000

[...] Simpel und einfach kann man seine Locations eingeben, und erfährt, wenn Kollegen zur gleichen Zeit am selben Ort sind. Leider im Moment nur, wenn sie zur exakt gleichen Zeit am exakt gleichen Ort sind – etwas mehr Fuzziness wäre hier sehr willkommen, denn für gute Bekannte die man selten sieht, ist man gerne bereit, einen Umweg zu machen, oder eine Reise zu verlängern. Ich habe noch ein paar Invites – wenn Du auch eine Frequent Traveller bist, lass ich Dir gerne einen zukommen. PS: mein Invite stammt von Tom Purves, danke Tom! Werde Dich dafür im Sommer in Toronto besuchen kommen… PPS: gerade gesehen: Interview mit dem Chef-Entwickler. [...]

By: Interview: Dopplr Lead Developer, Matt Biddulph | acidlabs

Interview: Dopplr Lead Developer, Matt Biddulph | acidlabs — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:10:15 +0000

[...] is the Lead Developer on social network for travellers, Dopplr. I interviewed him recently for my Dopplr review on Web Worker Daily. I’m posting the full interview here so that you can read all the really interesting things [...]

By: Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:06:28 +0000

@almostgotit – social computing generally needs to be exposed much better in business. It’s something I do a fair bit of consulting on and the barriers can be hard to break. But yes, if business people were exposed to this in an easy to use way, we might break through to the general rather than tech-savvy user.

@Om – absolutely agree that Dopplr needs to play more with other services. It already plays with Upcoming, but only on a per-event basis as far as I can tell. There needs to be a way to get all the professional/social connection plus presence-based social tools talking together. That way, Facebook knows when you’ll be at Upcoming event X which is automatically reflected in your Dopplr and Google calendars and informs your LinkedIn connections who are attending the same event. I’d suggest it’s doable.

By: Top Posts « WordPress.com

Top Posts « WordPress.com — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:02:21 +0000

[...] Social Network Dopplr Connects You When You Travel [image]Still in beta, Dopplr is a very interesting take on connecting travelers through the power of social […] [...]

By: GigaOM June 11, 2007: Qwest, Dopplr & Continuous Partial Inattention «

GigaOM June 11, 2007: Qwest, Dopplr & Continuous Partial Inattention « — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:30:33 +0000

[...] Dopplr, a social network when you are on the move. (link) [...]

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:10:50 +0000

I think this service would be more valuable if they hooked up with linkedin or something similar in order to make it more useful for the business users. i think otherwise, it just doesn’t excite me – for one thing I don’t have is time, and this is just another time suck as a standalone entity

By: almostgotit

almostgotit — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:43:26 +0000

This intrigues me. I can see many applications for Doppir in the business world, which is (unfortunately) dominated by many people for whom social networking/Web 2.0 stuff is just so much gobbledegook. Also, many of these folks depend on admin assistants to manage their schedules for them, and few of these assistants are interested in managing this as third-party function (e.g., issuing invites, etc.)

This may seem utterly tangental, I realize, but how does one bring this sort of technology to the audience that could really benefit from it, instead of merely to techy millenials or globe-trotting trust-fund millenials? Not to mention the fact that it is still awfully “fiddly” with all the invitations and data entry, etc. Much of the gap between those who “use” and those who do not is an unwilingness, on our (techy) side) to acknowledge our own enduring myth that computers SAVE TIME. How can we even say that, after putting in 10 or 14 hour days in front of our little LCD screens? What computers do is create whole new opportunities. The real challenge is making opportunities that are truly available to the many instead of just we few…