It started as a tool for a small number of friends who spent a lot of time on the road, but now Dopplr is billing itself as a full social networking site for frequent travellers.
The service lets you keep track of your friends and colleagues and find out where they will be and when – perfect for international jet setters and people who spend a lot of time on the road. Still nascent (it's currently in an invitiation-only beta trial) Dopplr's creators have a lot of plans in mind: hooking in to travel websites, carbon offsetting programmes and white labelling could all be on the cards.
Although the brainchild of Finnish designer Marko Ahtisaari (who now works for another startup, mobile advertising network Blyk) the site has strong British credentials, with former BBC web wunderkinds Matt Jones and Matt Biddulph also among the founders.
The team are aware that they are in danger of being crushed by larger sites – and so are happy to push Dopplr's systems out into other heavyweight services like Facebook – but with travel and social networking two of the web's hottest and most profitable properties, investors may soon be scrabbling to get a piece of the action
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