While on the subject, I share the view that introducing too much complexity in the form of features, preferences or options tends to destroy the beauty (and I use that term in the full sense of its meaning) of many highly-focused applications. It is very understandable why and how this happens, but that does not make the phenomenon anymore palatable to the end user.

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Im Moment gerade viel Hype im Netz zum Thema Dopplr:
Dopplr is an online service for frequent travellers. It was created by an international team of world travellers as a tool for our own use. We liked it so much that we decided to open it up to our gl…

It’s clear to me at least that people do impose their mental models from other services onto new ones they discover - nothing earth-shattering about that, but we should perhaps be clearer about the model in order to make that subtle shift.

Glad you’re enjoying it and very reassured to hear you approve to our somewhat puritanical approach to adding new features!!!

Cheers

/Matt

I hadn’t realised you had added me and I hadn’t! Just added you back. Being able to see a list of “people who have added me” would be useful.

When someone adds you as a friend on Twitter (or Flickr, or del.icio.us), it generally means “I am interested in reading your information and the like”.

When someone adds you as a friend on Dopplr, it’s the exact reverse. It means “I am publishing my information to you, if you’d like to see it.”

It’s hard to reverse polarities when thinking about social networks.

So either a lot of people don’t like me (you included, Steph!), or it’s not obvious enough that people have to add you back - even those you invite.

Otherwise, I love the service.