Dopplr launches public profiles. If you want to share your trips with people, and get to know about those coincidences when you happen to be near good friends, Dopplr is the place to go. Dopplr CEO Lisa Sounio did an appreciated talk at SIME 07, and with her team she has now launched public profiles on Dopplr, so that trips can be shared with people outside Dopplr as well. The feature would have been announced at the Reboot conference, but due to illness it was released on the Dopplr blog instead.

Location social network service Plazes has been acquired by Nokia and previews new release of their web service. Nokia seems to be on a shopping spree, with recent decision to buy all of Symbian as well.

David Sifry, Technorati founder and SIME 08 speaker, has launched a new company: Offbeat Guides that will offer personalized printed travel guide books. The service is in invite only beta, but you can request an invite at offbeatguides.com.

Augmented mobile phonebook stars Zyb are hiring. They were recently acquired by Vodafone, and at the Reboot conference there were several people in Zyb t-shirts with a recruitment message, and postcards with a slogan about working in a startup environment but with the backing of a big organization. If you wan’t to work with Zyb, now’s the time to send your application.