Finished a trip to Brighton
created 30 August 2009 in stream tagged brighton, dopplr and united kingdom and is geotagged
Finished a trip to Brighton
Finished a trip to Brighton
Started a trip to Brighton
created 30 August 2009 in stream tagged brighton, dopplr and united kingdom and is geotagged
Started a trip to Brighton
Finished a trip to Gilleleje
Liked Fraser Speirs’s twitter
![Liked Fraser Speirs's twitter: [[ Thinking Dopplr's "Tell us something good about $place" prompt is not quite right for everywhere. Aberfoyle: "it has two roads out of it". ]]](http://jerakeen.org/files/thumbnail/url/3b68f4b0380e2ce7a372cfea4784d28c_240x180.png "Liked Fraser Speirs's twitter: [[ Thinking Dopplr's \"Tell us something good about $place\" prompt is not quite right for everywhere. Aberfoyle: \"it has two roads out of it\". ]]")
created 08 August 2009 in stream tagged dopplr, roads and two.
Liked Fraser Speirs's twitter: [[ Thinking Dopplr's "Tell us something good about $place" prompt is not quite right for everywhere. Aberfoyle: "it has two roads out of it". ]]
Started a trip to Gilleleje
Finished a trip to London
created 17 May 2009 in stream tagged dopplr, london and united kingdom and is geotagged
Finished a trip to London
Started a trip to London
created 16 May 2009 in stream tagged dopplr, london and united kingdom and is geotagged
Started a trip to London
Finished a trip to Prague
created 30 March 2009 in stream tagged czech republic, dopplr and prague and is geotagged
Finished a trip to Prague
Started a trip to Prague
created 27 March 2009 in stream tagged czech republic, dopplr and prague and is geotagged
Started a trip to Prague
Finished a trip to Gilleleje
Started a trip to Gilleleje
Marked “some of my dopplr trips” as a favourite on Flickr
created 09 December 2008 in stream tagged dopplr and moo.
Marked “some of my dopplr trips” as a favourite on Flickr
Finished a trip to Shoreditch
created 15 October 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, shoreditch and united kingdom and is geotagged
Finished a trip to Shoreditch
Started a trip to Shoreditch
created 15 October 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, shoreditch and united kingdom and is geotagged
Started a trip to Shoreditch
Liked Tom Coates’s twitter
![Liked Tom Coates's twitter: [[ An anti-Dopplr would provide ways to avoid serendipitous encounters in corridors so you could get to the bathroom more quickly. ]]](http://jerakeen.org/files/thumbnail/url/fa9d66b017a280c8ee48ca25f1650356_240x180.png "Liked Tom Coates's twitter: [[ An anti-Dopplr would provide ways to avoid serendipitous encounters in corridors so you could get to the bathroom more quickly. ]]")
created 13 October 2008 in stream tagged corridors and dopplr.
Liked Tom Coates's twitter: [[ An anti-Dopplr would provide ways to avoid serendipitous encounters in corridors so you could get to the bathroom more quickly. ]]
Finished a trip to Canary Wharf
created 09 October 2008 in stream tagged canary wharf, dopplr and united kingdom and is geotagged
Finished a trip to Canary Wharf
Started a trip to Canary Wharf
created 09 October 2008 in stream tagged canary wharf, dopplr and united kingdom and is geotagged
Started a trip to Canary Wharf
Liked Andy Piper’s twitter
![Liked Andy Piper's twitter: [[ Evidently both Dopplr and Google Maps don't recognise "Republic of Hoxton" as a valid location. ]]](http://jerakeen.org/files/thumbnail/url/1bfdfba47182f10d84ab34fdc5bf2fe2_240x180.png "Liked Andy Piper's twitter: [[ Evidently both Dopplr and Google Maps don't recognise \"Republic of Hoxton\" as a valid location. ]]")
created 08 October 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, google, google maps, hoxton and recognise.
Liked Andy Piper's twitter: [[ Evidently both Dopplr and Google Maps don't recognise "Republic of Hoxton" as a valid location. ]]
Liked Marshall Lorenzo’s twitter
![Liked Marshall Lorenzo's twitter: [[ wondering who's on Dopplr? Is it shit? ]]](http://jerakeen.org/files/thumbnail/url/74fa66f4c285ddde7dce868b32ba49c9_240x180.png "Liked Marshall Lorenzo's twitter: [[ wondering who's on Dopplr? Is it shit? ]]")
created 06 October 2008 in stream tagged dopplr.
Liked Marshall Lorenzo's twitter: [[ wondering who's on Dopplr? Is it shit? ]]
created 30 September 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, photo and shortcomings.
New twitter: Infuriated at shortcomings in EXIF. I now have to write a script to cross-reference against Dopplr just to work out when a photo was taken.
Finished a trip to Amsterdam
created 26 September 2008 in stream tagged amsterdam, dopplr and netherlands and is geotagged
Finished a trip to Amsterdam
Marked “THE Dopplr Employee” as a favourite on Flickr
created 25 September 2008 in stream tagged amsterdam, dopplr, netherlands, picnic and picnic08.
Marked “THE Dopplr Employee” as a favourite on Flickr
Started a trip to Amsterdam
created 24 September 2008 in stream tagged amsterdam, dopplr and netherlands and is geotagged
Started a trip to Amsterdam
Marked “Dopplr meetup at the Monocle offices” as a favourite on Flickr
created 16 September 2008 in stream tagged dopplr and meetup and is geotagged
Marked “Dopplr meetup at the Monocle offices” as a favourite on Flickr
iCal calendar push
created 08 September 2008 in notes tagged calendar, dopplr, http, ical, upload and webdav.
There’s a common misconception that iCal uses WebDAV to upload calendars to remove servers. This bites me every so often, as I wrote the Dopplr iCal upload code and people tend to assume that if iCal can upload calendars, so should any other local calendar client that uses WebDAV. And they can’t - things break.
iCal actually does the simplest thing that could possibly work, and I love it for this. You give it a upload url, a username, and a password. The calendar you’re uploading has a name. iCal url-encodes the calendar name, and builds a calendar URL that looks like http://upload_url/calendar_name.ics. Then it does an HTTP PUT (authenticated with the username and password) of the contents of the calendar to that URL. Then it gives the url to the user and tells them that their calendar is here.
(As an aside, this means that you can upload more than one calendar into Dopplr, as long as they all have different names.)
That’s it. Exactly one HTTP call, one verb (Well, ok, there’s another verb. When you unpublish something, iCal sends an HTTP DELETE. But you knew that). It’s a subset of WebDAV, which is why iCal can also publish to WebDAV servers. But I was able to implement 60% of the iCal upload feature in Dopplr during the tea break in the middle of the meeting where someone came up with the idea, because adding support for a single extra verb to a single extra path is easy. Implementing WebDAV? Harder to get right.
Finished a trip to Rome
Started a trip to Rome
Finished a trip to Cambridge
created 23 August 2008 in stream tagged cambridge, dopplr and united kingdom and is geotagged
Finished a trip to Cambridge
Started a trip to Cambridge
created 23 August 2008 in stream tagged cambridge, dopplr and united kingdom and is geotagged
Started a trip to Cambridge
Finished a trip to East Ham
created 22 August 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, east ham and united kingdom and is geotagged
Finished a trip to East Ham
Marked “Dopplr plots Jim Lamb’s adventures” as a favourite on Flickr
Started a trip to East Ham
created 22 August 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, east ham and united kingdom and is geotagged
Started a trip to East Ham
Finished a trip to York
created 17 August 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, united kingdom and york and is geotagged
Finished a trip to York
Started a trip to York
created 15 August 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, united kingdom and york and is geotagged
Started a trip to York
Darker city colours
created 23 July 2008 in photos tagged color, colour, dopplr and screenshot.
Using the W3C‘s colour contrast measuring spec. Part of a Dopplr blog entry on our new darker city colours.
Social Graph API Demo - Site Connectivity
created 04 July 2008 in links tagged dopplr, googlesocialgraph, graph, jerakeen and social.
My social graph, now including my dopplr traveller page. Excellent.
http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sam...
badgorama
Finished a trip to Austin
created 11 March 2008 in stream tagged austin, dopplr and united states and is geotagged
Finished a trip to Austin
Finished a trip to New York
created 07 March 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, new york and united states and is geotagged
Finished a trip to New York
Started a trip to Austin
created 07 March 2008 in stream tagged austin, dopplr and united states and is geotagged
Started a trip to Austin
Started a trip to New York
created 01 March 2008 in stream tagged dopplr, new york and united states and is geotagged
Started a trip to New York
Once more, with contents
created 22 February 2008 in photos tagged dopplr, fedex, parcel and raumzeitgeist.
Possibly a smaller box might have worked.
FedEx package
created 22 February 2008 in photos tagged dopplr, fedex, parcel and raumzeitgeist.
an excitingly triangular box. It’ll be the Raumzeitgiest, I presume.
Finished a trip to Pamplona
Started a trip to Pamplona
Moo stickers
created 19 October 2007 in photos tagged 2lmc, dopplr, jerakeen, moo, stickers and unitedkingdom.
Moo cards ZoneTag: Photosphere / About. Owner only: Add Location / Add Tags / Settings
Finished a trip to Brighton
created 20 July 2007 in stream tagged brighton, dopplr and united kingdom and is geotagged
Finished a trip to Brighton
Started a trip to Brighton
created 20 July 2007 in stream tagged brighton, dopplr and united kingdom and is geotagged
Started a trip to Brighton
My next dopplr trick
created 27 May 2007 in photos tagged dopplr and googleearth.
This one is the trips of everyone you know. Everyone gets their own colour. Still issues with it, alas - lines for a person go from wherever they are right now to their destination, not from their home. But I’m getting there.
More Google Earth / Doppr stuff
created 24 May 2007 in blog tagged dopplr and google.
More Google Earth / Dopplr stuff - this time it’s an overlay of planned trips. Your planned trips, in fact, which isn’t terribly useful, but it’s a new API, and I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to do overlays for everyone you have data for. Then I need some way of establishing time data, or something. Plans, plans, plans.
Google Earth placemarks from Dopplr
About Tom Insam
created 25 October 2005 in about tagged dopplr and tominsam.
I’m currently a developer for Dopplr, where I write Ruby on Rails code and drink coffee. I’ve been a full-time programmer for four years now, and I know way too much about Unicode. Previously, I worked for four years at Fotango where I was a senior engineer on the Zimki JavaScript application development platform. I live in London, England, and try to avoid leaving. There are bears out there.