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- Dopplr’s Matt Jones appearing at Picnic in Amsterdam todaySeptember 24
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Several of the Dopplr team are in Amsterdam today to attend the Picnic ‘08 conference. Look out for us, and get yourself some of our new stickers.
At 4.20pm on Wednesday, Matt Jones is speaking on a panel entitled
The Emerging Real-Time Social Web.Update: here are the slides from Matt’s talk on the panel
“With ubiquitous internet connections and a surge of connected mobile services, slices of reality can be saved that people could not capture before. Saving and sharing our presence, we can feel those of others as well. We are on the verge of a reality with ‘social peripheral vision’, in which ambient fr
- Dopplr Announces Financing Round for Global ExpansionSeptember 15
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Today we’re announcing a new round of funding at Dopplr. We’re very excited about this news. For the details, here’s our press release in full:
International group led by Esther Dyson, Tyler Brûlé and Thomas Glocer invests in online service for sharing travel intentions
London and Helsinki, 16 September 2008 - Dopplr, the online service for smarter travel, has announced a second financing round from a group of prominent international investors — all users of the service. The funding will be used to expand the service globally from its strong base in Europe.
The new investors include Esther Dyson, Tyler Brûlé, Thomas Glocer, Yat Siu, Aditya dev Sood, Lars Hinrichs, Joshua Schachter, Brian Behlendorf, Ami Hasan, Daniel Sachs, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Kim Weckström, and Azeem Azhar. Saul Klein, who invested
- Atlas of the Autumn: the extraordinary places we’re visiting this Fall 2008September 15
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As we head out of the summer (or whatever passed for it here in London) we thought it was time to take another of our semi-regular looks at where we’re headed for the rest of the year.
This time around, instead of just plotting the popular destinations, which don’t change significantly from season-to-season - we’d try and surface the outliers.
That is, the extraordinary places that have attracted significant numbers of people from the beginning of September til the end of November.
To do this, we used a property of our database we call excitement, which the other Matt - MattB - can tell you all about, in his by-now-traditional “here comes the science bit”:
When we set out to summarise the travel outlook for the end of 2008, we wanted to do more than just list destinations by simple popularity. As frequent travellers we’re interested in what’s off the beaten path: the anomalies in travel patterns as well as the hubs.
To do this, we created a metric that compares activity in a location over a time period to the average activity there. For each active trip destination, we look at its si
- Groups on Dopplr: Stage #1 - Company GroupsSeptember 15
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Over the summer we’ve been working hard to create Groups on Dopplr.
There will be a few stages to this, and the first we’re ready to introduce is the groups feature for companies and corporations, which we launched at dConstruct08.
Overall - groups are a way to share trips with people who might not be in your Dopplr network yet, but would share a common interest around the trips you place in those groups. Specifically, in this first stage of our roll-out of groups, that common interest equates to the companies we work for.
What do I mean?
Well - imagine the trip as a “social object” you can place into a group for anyone who is a member of that group to see. For instance, say I worked for SuperDuperBigCo, and was going on a business trip to Tokyo.
Everyone in my Dopplr network would see the trip as per usual - but if I chose to place the trip in the SuperDuperBigCo group then anyone in the group could see it, including members of the g
- New on Dopplr: Share trips with people who haven’t joined Dopplr yet using “guest passes”September 15
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We’ve introduced “guest passes” - for the times that you want to send a specific trip to someone whether they’re a member of Dopplr or those not using the service yet (future members, we prefer to call them!)
They’re super-simple to use.
Just click “Share this trip” next to any of your trips…
A “Share this trip” box will pop-up.
In here you can type the name of any Dopplr member you know (we’ll show you a list of your connections)
Or - an email address of someone you want to share the trip with - perhaps a colleague or a family member who’s not on Dopplr yet. Of course you can enter as many email addresses or user-names as you want.
