I had been signed-up at dopplr for quite some months now, however, I never really had a close look at it. After playing around a little bit I became pretty attached to this slick Service. Dopplr simply allows you to share your travels and itinteries with friends and family. It is obviously itended for frequent travelleres. This fact might be also the problem of the Site. Although the Service is currently undergoing a real Hype especially in the US I don’t see this Site working for the “casual facebook user”. It only really makes sense if you have at least 1 Trip a Month and if you know that many people that you keep forgetting who of your friends is in which City. Honestly, I think there isn’t such a huge Amount of people on this Planet who have this Issue.

The Site itself is beautiful. The core Focus is obviously adding Itinteries and share them with Buddies. This works in Realtime and they also got a nice and (nowadays almost mandatory) Googleearths Mashup.

There is currently not Advertising on the Site and no clearly indicated Revenue Stream possibilites. However I can see some “pretty pretty good” (Copyright Larry David) Chances of getting serious Dollars out of this. The Target Group are probably mostly rich, sophisticated cosmpolitan Travelleres. Travelling and Web is still a huge Topic and since Dopplr has an open API it is a perfect Service to be integrated by others.

Still, as I mentioned, as a Student, I am not a permanent Traveller although I guess I am doing pretty good..We’ll see how it’s going to develop but I am sure if some more Sitefeatures are added and some really useful features are included (not just an Ical Feed) dopplr is on it’s way.