Hey Everyone!

I made a Cube Community group on my Waze App. It's a great social GPS for your car, it's like Pac-Man and GPS all rolled into one! Check it out and join me and my Cube on the road. If you're close to another Cube, you can do a shout out to them using the Chat function. You can also report on road conditions and pave new roads that haven't been discovered by Waze.

You can find the Cube Community group on Waze by installing the App, then going to groups and you'll find it there using the search tool.

Cheers

Jasin

www.waze.com

I recently found out that Tibetans have the highest rate of blindness of anywhere in the world because of a combination in altitude and poverty. BUT what is optimistic is that the type of blindness they suffer from can be reversed by a simple procedure that is close to just $50. In a country that is so heavily dependant on agriculture it is imperative that they have eyesight for survival.

A few friends and I have entered a contest under the team name Love at First Sight and over the past three weeks we have been spreading awareness and trying to reach our goal of $5,000 to put towards an eye camp in Tibet. If we reach this goal we could potentially help 100 people have the chance at full vision again. As a byproduct an entire community will be transformed. We are worried though as the deadline for donations is this Friday, March 12 at noon.

Since the were awarded their Cubes everyone has been sharing their experiences on twitter, facebook and often times face to face.

I've noticed some trends:

1. People NOTICE the Cube.  So many winners have commented at the stares they get on the street and how passers by will stop to look at their car.
2. Winners love to talk about their Cube.  Winners actually do engage with the passers by. I don't think this has anything to do with feeling obligated.  I think it has everything to do with the fact that the Cube is a really fun car and we want to talk about it.
3. Police have stopped winners to talk about their car.  Its happend to more than a few winners.
4. Many winners now have scarred Cubes.  Whether its a chip in the windsheild or a scrape from sources unknown or (sadly) vandals in the night, Cubes are not immune to the wear and tear of being out in the wild.  Scars are bound to happen however much we'd like to hope they would stay perfect forever.

Just got an email message saying that the new cubecommunity.ca site is finally live.  No sooner to I get the email and sign in, but I notice that two people have already posted on the new site.

I guess that means that people are excited to try it out.

Some new features that are easily spotted:

• Brighter look
• Easier to embed images into posts
• New 'our pictures' and 'our videos'
• New Galleries (kind of the same thing)

In other news: The picture you see is one I took at the Nissan BBQ on July 30th.  I'm going to upload all my pics from that into a new gallery.  If you were there, maybe you can upload your too?

andre

Technically, I guess this is my first blog post to the community after winning my cube.
So what's happened since my friends tweeted:
Holy crap @becircle just won a car. #thehypercube 8:58 PM Jun 23rd from TwitterBerry
Oh shit! @becircle just won a car!!!! http://twitpic.com/88v8r 9:00 PM Jun 23rd from Twitterrific