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Like
a mini-MySpace site/online travel journal/interactive blog.
This is the subscriber driven section of the site and the
most interactive and key area beyond the animations themselves.
This
is the place where users house and upload all their own personal
stuff about their car, service records, photos, travel stories
and travel experiences to share with each other and as an
archive for themselves. If they make videos, take photos,
write poetry that has anything to do with cars, road travel
or mechanics they tag their material and upload making it
available for others to rate and comment on. The most popular
material is linked back and featured on other parts of the
site for the wider community to enjoy.
Users
start by naming and personalising their 'car park' on the
site. They enter some key street and suburb details for places
that they hang out at and regularly visit, and they mark off
some places they've been on a map. For privacy reasons we
suggest they don't enter any actual addresses but they might
want to upload some photos of their favourite places to visit
around the country.
They
invite friends and family and approve people as official buddies
and email list recipients to receive their updates. If they
do a road trip, they can sms-in automatic updates, photos,
videos and live blogs to their page from the road as they
go. Great for their families to keep track of them and great
for their buddies to share their experiences and offer tips
of where to stay and what to do along the way. Discounts at
backpackers, music concerts, free brake checks etc at various
points along the way are targeted to their phone as they indicate
where they are in their travels.
This
page can also link back to YouTube, private websites, blogger,
MySpace and all kinds of other online communities as they
choose.
At
the end of each trip they can spit out calculations of how
far they travelled, what their fuel economy was based on their
distance and petrol costs etc. and a map showing where they've
just been.
They
can easily summarise and transfer blogged information about
places they've stayed etc, to other travel information sites
such as "trip adviser" and "lonely planet".
They can submit their videos to Gmech for an official listing,
or to "lonelyplanet.tv" for official screenings.
They can offer their videos to other users for ratings.
For
budding car mechanics this is where they upload their own
home made videos (in the style of "video jug").
It's also where they upload original creative material, such
as short stories, poems, photographs, and new animations etc
as created using the Creative Commons licence and featuring
Gmech materials.
Frequent
travellers and users of the site will receive reward points
and will become eligible for Greenfleet credits, discount
roadside assistance memberships, other sponsor prizes and
they may also have their member profiles featured on the site
or in co-sponsor magazines.