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DOPPLR Profiles Make Sharing Travels Easy

If you are a constant traveler for either business or pleasure you might find DOPPLR to be helpful as it makes it easy to broadcast  your travel plans. DOPPLR, like radar for frequent travelers, finds intersections with your travel itineraries and your friends thus facilitating potential meetups while on the go. I have been using DOPPLR for awhile now and it appears the service has continued to improve. Today DOPPLR rolled out the ability to make your traveling profile public in a release (codenamed "Copenhagen").

DOPPLR Estimates Your Carbon Footprint

If you are a heavy traveler you might not realize it but every time you take an airplane flight you drastically negatively affect your carbon footprint on the environment. In an effort to make travels aware of this very fact, traveling social network Dopplr has teamed with AMEE to calculate your carbon footprint. By investigating past and current trips logged in Dopplr your CO2 emissions are posted on a seperate tab. Users can then contribute their number to the rest of the community or keep it private. I have included an example of the output carbon emissions below.

TripIt Adds Location Based Traveler Alerts

TripIt, a travel planner, organizer and social networking site previously reviewed on Somewhat Frank when it launched at TechCrunch40, has added some more social stickiness to the product by exposing when your contacts might have similar travel plans. Since TripIt already offers an number of useful general travel organization and collaboration utilities the new location-based social “closeness” alerts are aimed at helping travels keep better connected with others by making it easier to keep track of when someone may be in your town or your paths cross while on the road by automatically sending out notifications.

Dopplr Radar For Frequent Travelers

Do you travel a lot? If you do you might be getting tired for having to keep all your friends and family up to speed with where you are headed next or where you have just been. In steps Dopplr, a Finland-based startup which aims to make it easy for frequent travelers to broadcast where their travel plans. Named appropriately after the Doppler radar system, Dopplr makes it easy to share your travel plans so people can follow your travel radar.