I travel a fair bit and, on occasion, run into people I know in airport lounges. But how much easier if my travel plans were easily visible to friends, business associates, and bloggers & email correspondents I'd like to meet? That's the promise of Dopplr and, now, my request to join has been granted, by Chris Herot. Thank you Chris!
Dopplr's premise is simple, plug in your travel schedule and a list of people you'd be happy to meet. Get back info on who will overlap with you, when and where. There are obvious issues of privacy, but they seem well handled and, anyway, I'm fairly promiscuous with my travel schedule.
The bigger issue is critical mass. I joined yesterday and my internal ID is 993. Chris Herot is 180, Dave Wienberger is 60. I recognize Dopplr members who are well known in social networking circles, but fewer from the telecom blogsphere or other circles I travel in.
So to help build critical mass, especially among people I'm interested in meeting, I have three invitations to give out. Readers of my blog sound like good candidates, so I offer these invitations to the first three people to write a comment below.
Hi Brough. I don't travel as much at the moment as I have in the past, but I still do a fair bit. And you're one of the folks I'd hope to meet up with in an airport lounge one day. I'd love to get an invite to check into Dopplr if you still have them to spare.
Posted by: kencamp | May 22, 2007 at 08:53 PM
Some of your blog readers would be good candidates, but not me, I don't travel nearly enough. Great idea for maximizing travel value and filling downtime.
Posted by: Craig Plunkett | May 23, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Being a travel junkie I'd love an invitation ;)
Thanks,
Hendrik
P.S. Check http://flightmemory.com/ if you are into nifty graphs.
Posted by: Hendrik Scholz | May 23, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Hi, Brough. Thanks for the offer. I'd like to take you up on it.
Michael.
Posted by: Michael Stanford | May 23, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Hi Brough,
If you happen to have an extra Dopplr invite that would be great! I really appreciate it.
Michael
Posted by: Michael | May 23, 2007 at 06:54 PM
I'd like one but I guess I missed out :o(
Posted by: ourman | May 23, 2007 at 07:15 PM
Hi,
I would be quite happy to get one. I travel for conferences plus vacation.
Thanks,
Pawel
Posted by: Pawel | May 24, 2007 at 03:38 PM
Hi Brough
With an extraordinary amount of travel done and loads more coming up this year I would really appreciate an invite.
Cheers
Posted by: Pat Phelan | May 26, 2007 at 05:36 AM