DOPPLR
Published by Rudy De Waele April 22nd, 2007 in Mobile Lifestyle, Friends, Fun, Innovation, beta, Location-Based Tags: beta, dopplr, Friends, Fun, future, innovation, location awareness, location based, maps, Mobile Lifestyle, mutual, travel.
Fabien invited me yesterday to Dopplr. Dopplr is an online service for frequent travellers. It was created by an international team of world travellers as a tool for their own use, then decided to open it their global friends. The Dopplr “beta” service is open by invitation only.
How does Dopplr work? It 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. You can use the service with your personal computer and mobile phone.
What is interesting here is the future location-awareness. Unlike past and real-time mutual location-awareness, it’s impossible to capture future locations. This makes a lot of sense to me with quite some travelling ahead this year. Especially for the conferences I’m attending, it’s always good to know who’s around and in town. I configured it for my mobile too, so I’m really curious how the service is going to work when travelling.
beta, dopplr, Friends, Fun, future, innovation, location awareness, location based, maps, Mobile Lifestyle, mutual, travel
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Hi,
Since Dopplr is an invitation-only service, would it be possible be invited?
I’m looking for an invitation for a while but Dopplr is a very specific service, so not everybody is part of the targeted public, making it much more private than other invitation based service as Joost or GMail.
Thanks in advance,
Francois