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Dopplr: Facebook for Jet Setters?

You've probably been asking yourself, When will the internet get yet another social networking site? You haven't? Oh, well, even if you've resisted making a Myspace page all these years, you'll probably be interested in the newest site in the game: Dopplr. Billing itself as "an online service for frequent travelers," it's sort of like Dodgeball-meets-Facebook for road dogs. (How cute that its name is optimized for the always-misspelled world of Web 2.0 apps.)

Dopplr lets you set up trip pages about any upcoming travels, primarily so you can coordinate meet-ups with your other travel-savvy pals or business contacts. You can also keep trip journals, drop in your Flickr stream and plot vacations on a map. As the service is still in beta testing, more features could be added or tweaked as developers continue hacking away at it.

As cool as it sounds, we'll go ahead and ring the privacy bell here about how much data you'll be forking over to Dopplr. We're talking travel times, documents, reservations, photos and lists of your favorite bars and clubs. Then again, that's probably stuff the TSA already knows about you.

We're still, ahem, waiting to get our beta invite, but you can score one if you have an email address linked to 100 trendsetting and travel-happy companies like Art Basel, Ogilvy, LVMH, MUJI or Virgin Group.

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