Dear Dopplr. I was wrong about you.

So I can't remember who first invited me to Dopplr. It was either Rafer or Prashant.

Dopplr is an online service for frequent travelers. You put in all of your upcoming trips and you hope that your traveling friends do the same.

I joined several months ago. And in the beginning I didn't get it. It felt hard to use. It felt like yet another weak social network asking me to re-create myself online. I had to invite more friends to yet another service.

Lots of folks asked me what I thought and I would just reply,  "it's okay". Which is code for "it's not for me".

But I was wrong. Way wrong.

It clicked about a month ago for me. Once I had a core group of friends using the service it became incredibly useful. Now I love Dopplr. It's fantastic. It's made for folks like me that travel a lot and have friends that travel a lot. Using Dopplr I've been able to connect with my west coast friends while I'm traveling or when they are in NYC or Boston.

I'd like to see some improvements to Dopplr. Integrating with Twitter is a no-brainer. Also, to sync based on categories to Outlook or Gcal is also a must.

I was wrong about you Dopplr. I'm glad I stuck it out.

Dopplr is still in private beta but if you want to give it a try leave a comment here and I'll send you an invite. Here's my profile on Dopplr.

Comments

[Jim]

would like an invite to try it out. Thanks.

Jim

[bijan sabet]

@Jim

Invite on the way.

-bijan

[Laura Athavale Fitton]

Having been ridiculously wrong about and now being ridiculously into Twitter, I'll bite. Would love to try it. Thanks.

[Bijan Sabet]

@Laura

invite on the way.

bijan

[Cory Kidd]

I've been wanting something like this for years! Have any more invites? I'd love to give it a try and see how it looks.

[bijan]

cory-
Invite on the way.

[Bruno]

The exact social network I have been looking for...any chance you have an invite left?

Thanks in advance

Bruno

[Bijan Sabet]

hey bruno

should be in your inbox in a few minutes.

-bijan