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23rd July 2008 - Link Blog

How Dopplr learns. Dopplr uses global and personal trip histories to disambiguate place names, and your friends’ schedules to help disambiguate dates in airline confirmation emails.

Posted 23rd July 2008 at 4:17 pm

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