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Nokia To Acquire Dopplr

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Re: Nokia To Acquire Dopplr

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Dopplr's kind of cool, but I'm still looking for the right thing: I travel occasionally, and in reality, it's not my circle of friends that needs to be informed, it's the people that I could potentially meet somewhere. For instance, I'm part of Debian (although I really ought to officially retire) and the Apache Software Foundation. There are lists where I can mention that I'm going to be somewhere, and more often th…

Hi David -- There are a few sites like that. You could try travbuddy.com if you are interested in meeting travelers by location or showing them around your hometown, although it has less of a tech slant. couchsurfing.org has more of a backpacking focus, but they also have regular meet-ups around the world.

Re: Nokia To Acquire Dopplr

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I'd love to know what caused so many high profile entrepreneurs to get involved with Dopplr. Hoffman, joshu, Saul Klein, Martin Varsavsky.

I imagine, as people who travel a lot, they found the service extremely useful. It's also a really classy service, and the founders were well almost certainly known to the investors already.

Exactly.

I'd been thinking of wanting something like this (I thought of it as a "social network for airports") for a while, so when I heard about it I was interested.

I would hardly call myself "high profile" BTW.

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