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Matt Jones set one of Matt Jones' replies as an official response to "Raumzeitgeist cropped?! Why?" in Dopplr

Matt Jones replied on January 12, 2009 18:28 to the question "Raumzeitgeist cropped?! Why?" in Dopplr:

Hi there. The Raumzeitgeist image is dynamically-cropped for each user to try and balance the view of the globe with the cities you've visited.

When we were designing it, we wanted an end result that gave a balance of the global and the personal and would work for most users, no matter how spread out their destinations were.

We're always considering new visualisations for your data, so any suggestions you have are very welcome.

Matt Jones shared an idea in Huffduffer on October 21, 2008 15:03:

I'd like Huffduffer to talk to my last.fm account

Would it be possible for things I play on Huffduffer to be scrobbled to last.fm? I guess if I listened to them as a podcast produced by huffduffer then they would get scrobbled by my mediaplayer (iTunes) but it would be nice to have a more direct activity stream from the service piped in there perhaps??

Matt Jones set one of Matt Jones' replies as an official response to "Slight news-feed story improvement." in Dopplr

Matt Jones replied on October 21, 2008 10:11 to the idea "Slight news-feed story improvement." in Dopplr:

Hi Jan - we've been working on ways to make our FB integration better, and this idea is certainly one we're working on.

It requires that we make some changes on the Dopplr end to maintain the degree of control over your private information that we want you to have, while giving visitors from FB a good experience. Look for this to be rolled out before the end of the year

Thanks for using Dopplr, and safe travels.

Matt Jones started following the idea "Slight news-feed story improvement." in Dopplr.

Matt Jones replied on October 15, 2008 22:02 to the question "Groups issue" in Dopplr:

Hi - would you like us to create an NBC Universal group or include that email domain in the GE group? Either way, we can help.

Matt Jones started following the idea "Remote usability testing on anyone with a Mac + iSight" in Clearleft.

Matt Jones replied on August 05, 2008 13:24 to the question "What's the best way to switch the home city?" in Dopplr:

Hi James - on the whole, we'd recommend that you don't change your home city on Dopplr unless it's an 'open-ended' arrangement - i.e. you're not certain of the date it will change again.

In your case we'd recommend that you put you time in France as a long trip, as you said you did originally (with the approximate return date) and then add your other trips from your base in France as normal.

On Dopplr, a trip that happens to be enclosed in another trip is implicitly from where you happen to be at the time, so we should do the right thing, both in terms of coincidences and carbon calculation.

We're planning some extra functionality around moving home shortly, and we'll aim to be clear about this in the interface in future. Sorry for any confusion we've caused.

Matt Jones replied on July 28, 2008 09:16 to the discussion "What sort of functionality do you want from a mobile version of Dopplr?" in Dopplr:

Admittedly, our first version of http://m.dopplr.com is simple and a little limited. We already have some ideas for v2.0, but what would you like to see included to really get the most out of Dopplr on your mobile?

Matt Jones started a conversation in Dopplr on July 28, 2008 09:16:

What sort of functionality do you want from a mobile version of Dopplr?

@furukama yep it does. I think m.dopplr.com but somewhat limited. and you can twitter to it now ;)

Matt Jones replied on June 29, 2008 10:12 to the problem "Uploading slideshow keeps getting error" in SlideShare:

Same happening to me. At least this reassures me that it's not just me and there's something broken at their end. I guess it won't get fixed till after the weekend... :-(

Matt Jones replied on June 26, 2008 13:33 to the question "Configure public profile" in Dopplr:

Hi Alper - we've just launched public profiles for everyone, so you should be able to go play with it now! Sorry for the delay while we were testing...

Matt Jones set one of Matt Jones' replies as an official response to "TripIt is much easier than Dopplr" in Dopplr

Matt Jones replied on June 05, 2008 23:33 to the idea "TripIt is much easier than Dopplr" in Dopplr:

Hello - we agree TripIt do a great job of handling your travel confirmations once you've booked. We also agree that entering stuff by hand is not great. Look! I'm doing it now! It's horrible!

Dopplr is about your future, and if you're trying to optimise your travel plans BEFORE you book stuff, we need to get the information from other places, including plain old human intervention.

We try to make that as painless as possible in the UI, so if you have any specific ideas or criticism about that, that would be great.

BUT!

We're working on a bunch of ways to get your information into Dopplr easily.

First up we've got some great ways to get the information into Dopplr from your calendaring software - like Google Calendar and Apple iCal.

(http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/02/27/new...

You can also use SMS to create trips (http://www.dopplr.com/main/faq#05-02), and we're working on a few new interesting things that we think will make it a lot easier to enter your trips in the next couple of months. Stay tuned!

Matt Jones started a conversation in Dopplr on May 28, 2008 14:49:

What sorts of comparison would best help you evaluate your carbon figures on Dopplr?

What would serve as a good comparison for evaluating your carbon?

At the moment Dopplr shows you the raw figures, but we realise without independent research it's tricky to know what that means.

We're chatting with the good folk at http://www.amee.cc who power our calculator about this, but wanted to open up the discussion here...

BTW - a while back I asked what the carbon footprint of freezing Han Solo in Carbonite would be (http://tinyurl.com/6mac24), but I figure we might run into some trouble if we used "Solos" as a unit of comparison... ;-)

Matt Jones replied on May 23, 2008 12:39 to the question "Is there a way to add custom transport types to my trip?" in Dopplr:

"Other" might allow us to enter the carbon data from ESA's Ariane-5 Rocket that AMEE have... although not sure we have 'geo-stationary orbit' as a destination.

MattJ replied on May 22, 2008 16:48 to the problem "Making multi-stop trips better" in Dopplr:

Hi Simon, we're making some tweaks that might solve your problem with editing multi-stop trips on Dopplr. Any other thoughts on how we could improve it?

MattJ reported a problem in Dopplr on May 22, 2008 16:48:

Making multi-stop trips better

For some reason I can't spell Dopplr this morning. Gah

MattJ replied on May 22, 2008 14:58 to the question "Using Dopplr on Facebook" in Dopplr:

Hi there...

You can add a Dopplr application to Facebook and get the best of both worlds...
http://apps.facebook.com/dopplr_where...