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"Web 2.0 has been advancing the way we connect with our friends and family, but it has also introduced all kinds of communities to the Internet that may not have otherwise existed. SoCruise is one of them.\nSoCruise is a social networking site focused on uniting the cruise community online. Cruises are a popular choice for sunshine-loving vacationers, and now SoCruise will provide these vacationers with a chance to connect their experiences. From Norwegian Cruises to Caribbean cruises, SoCruise creates networks for hundreds of different ships and communities.\nIt almost seems ridiculous not to have a cruise social network. Oftentimes it is on holiday trips and vacations that people form close relationships with others they meet along the way, but have trouble keeping in touch. Not only does SoCruise keep its users in a tight-knit community, like any social network, it lets them create profiles, upload pictures, and post notes. It can also help them generate personalized cruise trips, deals, and holiday offers.\nFor having launched just last week, SoCruise is very advanced. It's perfect for advertisers because it lets them analyze user information to send specific offers. But I have issues with the fact that it looks too much like Expedia.com instead of a place to socialize, network, and grow a community.\nAnd in terms of travel, perhaps the site is a bit too niche. The users who join this site will have to be the kind of people who love cruise ships enough to travel on them multiple times a year and want to be connected to their cruise ship buddies all the time. If these people exist, more power to them. But for the people who only go on cruise ships once or twice a year, general trip-planning social sites like TripTie or TripWiser may be more useful."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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