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"Editor's Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in \"The Startup Review\" series, please see the details here.\nSTARTUP DETAILS:\nCompany Name:  YowTRIP\nCompany Website:   http://www.yowtrip.com/\nCEO's 20 word description:  YowTRIP is a social network site that connects you with other world travelers in your town or wherever you're traveling.\nCEO's 100 word description:  Our goal is to promote cultural exchange by connecting world travelers and enabling them to share their travel experiences online. Furthermore, we want to transform this virtual relationship into a real life one where people can find others with similar travel interests and travel together. YowTrip matches people's travel plans with others traveling to or living in the same place. Besides that, you can keep track where/when your friends are traveling. \nMashable's Take:   Traveling is a great pastime, especially if you have good people to travel with.  What if you're looking for people to travel with, or you're looking for people to meet once you arrive at your destination?  YowTrip is a site aimed at getting people to meet, face-to-face, during their travels.  \n\nSimilar to travel blogs, you can post stories, photos and videos about the trips you've taken.  From there, your traveled locations are marked on a map, and you become a resourceful authority on a particular city to which you've been.  Search for folks that have been to a place where you plan on traveling, or for other users that may want to join you on your trip.  Filters for age and location are available as well, but I didn't see any search filters for gender or specific area of a city, interests, etc.   Create a group in order to keep all the members in the loop.  \nThere aren't really many planning tools on YowTrip, which I think should be a next step for this service, especially as it's focus is on helping people meet face-to-face, not just for providing recommendations on good restaurants in the area, or as an online space for blogging about one's travels.  To that end, it would also be helpful to have some import options from other travel blogs, photo-sharing sites, and search sites so that YowTrip users can allow the majority of their site activity to remain on meeting new people as they travel around the world, or even an option for finding places to crash, similar to CouchSwap. \n\n\nSponsored by Sun Startup Essentials\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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