Dopplr, building the Social Atlas

We've been getting a great response to the Dopplr New York release and what we've come to call the Social Atlas.

Dopplr now lets you build a record of places you've been in your home city and cities around the world, like quality restaurants and hotels - as well as places you've explored. It all happens with a simple one- or two-click interaction.



The idea is that our collective travel knowledge will inform and improve the travel experience of all. Any places you've marked will be visible to the people that can see your travels on Dopplr. In addition, your choices will be aggregated, anonymised and visualised into part of a unique overall picture of a city visible to all Dopplr users. Eventually the Social Atlas will be on mobile devices, part of a Dopplr mobile application we are launching very soon.

Here are some cities where you can start finding places you may know:

• Beijing: places to eat and places to stay
• Rome: places to eat and places to stay
• London: places to eat and places to stay
• New York: places to eat and places to stay
• Paris: places to eat and places to stay
• Helsinki: places to eat and places to stay
• San Francisco: places to eat and places to stay
• Barcelona: places to eat and places to stay
• Amsterdam: places to eat and places to stay
• Hong Kong: places to eat and places to stay

For the time being you can only mark places listed on Dopplr, but we will soon allow you to add places to the Dopplr directory on both web and mobile. This is a critical part of keeping the Social Atlas we're building fresh, surprising and relevant.