Dopplr Update

Interesting that I was still the only San Francisco-based user of Dopplr until I invited Ted Rheingold today.

Things there continue to heat up as many of my 'fellower travellers' come on line. Note the British spelling. (I wonder if the Dopplr folks know that the term 'fellow traveller' was used by socialists and communists to represent 'fellow members of the underground'?)

I also note that Dopplr is not doing the right thing vis-a-vis non-travel. Ted Rheingold is based in San Francisco, and he has no travel planned and he has not explicitly stated he will be in San Francisco in April, but Dopplr shows us overlapping so long as I explicitly state travel to San Francisco. But if I remove my explicit trip there, the overlap with Ted and other people visiting San Francisco drops from 'My Trips'. I guess we should all adopt a modern nomad outlook, and explicit denote where we will be, even if it is being 'home'. That way I will also be able to keep track of the status of local users too.

Interesting side note: Christopher Herot pointed out via email that the domain name is owned by... Dan Gilmore!

tags: dopplr, fellow+travellers, dan+gilmore

Comments

[Stephanie Booth]

I agree that there should be some explicitness about being "home" -- but there are two ways of being home that need to be differentiated, in my opinion:

- A. I'm home because I've nowhere else in particular to go, and might change that into travel
- B. I'm home because I have commitments there and could not decide to travel during those dates

[Chris Messina]

Hey man, if you have any more invites, I'd *love* to try this out! ;D

[Tom Carden]

Actually, Dopplr has quite a few folks from San Francisco in there, but you can only find them if they are fellow travellers.

[Tom]

Hello there, I would like get an invitation for dopplr please. Thank you.