Yesterday I received an invitation to join Dopplr, an online service for habitual travelers. Dopplr allows you to share your upcoming travel plans with friends or fellow travelers within your network. You can also leave notes about a city that your friends can see, for example where to go out for sushi or to catch a live band. Additionally, when you have grown a network, it will remind you which of your friends live in the cities you’re planning to visit. Members can use the service from their personal computers or mobile phones.
According to Dopplr, membership is geared toward people who “travel more than five times per year and have friends who do as well.”
My initial observation is that Dopplr definitely has some potential. Given my hectic weekly traveling schedule for work this is a site I could get some quality use out of were the membership to substantially grow. A few days ago they received some funding from investors, so hopefully they can spawn this into a nice social-travel site. You can see some of the potential with this site in the mashups that have been made for Facebook and Google Earth.
The site says I have “unlimited invitations to Dopplr,” so if anyone is interested in checking it out for themselves leave a comment and I’ll shoot you over an invite. In the meantime, here are some Dopplr screen shots for your enjoyment:
1) Home Screen (Not Logged In)
2) Home Screen First Login
3) Account Management
4) Add Trip
5) Home Screen with Trips
6) Text Messaging Setup
7) Journal
8 ) Invite
9) Search
10) City View - Austin, Texas
11) Avatar Upload
12) Home Screen with Avatar
8 Comments
Hi, this service sounds pretty cool - I’m a frequent traveller myself, and I would love to make this know to some of my friends so that I don’t have to do it all the time. Jon, can I get an invite to the above? Thanks / Mendor
@ Mendor - Just sent an invite your way. Let me know if for some reason it doesn’t reach you. Enjoy Dopplr!
Jon, this looks so cool!
I’d love to have an invitation and try it by myself.
Thank you for sharing!
Carme
@ Carme - I tried sending you an invite but Dopplr returned the following message: “Someone has already sent an invitation to that email address.”
Let me know if you would like me to send an invite to a different email address.
I travell frequently and this service sounds usefull to me. Can I get an invite to the site? Thank you!
@ Gerardo - Just tried sending you an invite but got the same error as when I tried to send one to the last person: “Someone has already sent an invitation to that email address.”
Give me a different email address if you still want me to send you an invite.
Ok, I send you by email. Thank you.
@ Gerardo - OK I just sent an invite to the email address that you sent me via email. Let me know if there are any problems. Enjoy Dopplr!