Dopplr

[octothorpe]

I've been scanning Dopplr for awhile, and it's finally out of beta. Yay!

It's a mash-up of social networking and travel. You put your travel schedule in, and you can see the travel schedule of your friends. You can even share calendars and such.

Check it out:

http://dopplr.com

I'm on there as "octothorpe".

Comments

[pagerbear.livejournal.com]

I just signed up as Pagerbear.

[mediamutt.livejournal.com]

Fascinating little application - presence location for travellers. Would be nice (but creepy) if it automatically fed from your GPS-enabled phone rather than you having to manually put in calendar entries into your calendar app.

Have you found it useful? What are your privacy concerns?

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

Well, they use publicly available APIs for things like Flickr, etc, and they're all opt-in. Also, you can only see the trips of people that have allowed you to do so, as a default. You can loosen those restrictions, if you'd like.

So yeah, I trust them with as much info as I am willing to give them.

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

Also, the application isn't about figuring out where you are *now*, it's about figuring out where you'll be in the future, so a GPS really isn't needed.

[notdefined.livejournal.com]

Signed up as notdefined

[urbear]

Interesting. I'm signed up as UrBear.

It's still a work-in-progress. Didn't take much effort to crash it, twice, and it can't find half the towns in New Jersey.

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're out of London. When I entered Greenwich, it found Old Greenwich, but not Greenwich proper. I said "fuck it, I'm in NYC"... and it decided I was in East New York. I then changed it to New York, NY, and it "got it".

It's a cool app, although they should have gone through some usability testing. It's not at all clear what my options are, and what I can and can't do to get to where I want to go.

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

Well, if I were touring like I used to, I'd sure want to get on board with that thing. As it is, though, I'm pretty much stuck here... ;-)

thanks for this

[tkn1114.livejournal.com]

you're always reliable on this sort of thing.

happy Xmas! Hope we meet next year.