Interesting Times

Anybody reading the Times this week may have noticed KeepMoving was the 'Site of the Week'. This is a true accolade. Look! Even Viggo Mortensen (best known as Aragorn in Lord of the Rings) is saluting our achievement.



So, on this slow balmy Summer's day, we've been toying with the idea of expanding the scale of our operation to include all of Middle Earth. Here's the development mock-up:

Dearest Petrol

This morning we've rolled out the eagerly-anticipated changes to our site. Now you can find the cheapest petrol on any road, or journey you chose to make. It's awfully handy, and we talk a little about it here.

These are only the first things we're going to do with all our petrol price information. We'll be doing a number of subsequent releases integrating the content further with our traffic information, making it even handier.

On of the first things we'll try and address with the current features is the "cheapest/dearest" terminology. Y'see, we've had a few debates around the office as to what the antonym (opposite) of 'cheapest' is. Priciest? Uncheapest? Expensiviest? We've settled on 'dearest', though we're a little worried it makes us sound a bit affected.



Anyway, any suggestions, let us know. Whether it's for new features or our lexical wranglings.

Went Ape!

It's not all gruelling development work here at KeepMoving. Sometimes we emerge into the sunshine and have team away days.

We had one such day at Go Ape! in Delamere Forest Park, climbing trees and swinging down ziplines. It was rather fun, and for no other reason than we think we're very photogenic people (well, for geeks), here's some photos.

Petrol Prices

You're driving to London. Should you fill up before you leave to avoid the service stations' high prices? Maybe the petrol will be cheaper in London? With the rocketing price of petrol, you'll want to fill up your tank for as little as possible.

We're collecting data from almost 10,000 petrol stations across the UK. We're currently integrating it into KeepMoving so you can see where's best to buy it.



We're launching it in just under two weeks. It's going to be rather useful, and we're quite excited in our own little traffic geek way.

I know your face

We designed a lot of the site's functionality back in December last year. Back in those dim, distant days we only had 3,000 members. We've now grown to over 20,000, and we're trying to keep up with the changing ways that the site is being used.

We always welcome suggestions, and he had a particularly good one last week from Alun Andrews:

When looking at the contacts tab it shows a lot of icons for members 'who are sharing your routes'. I think it would be useful to exclude all the site members who do not want to share their details from the page.

This was a great idea, and even better, it was simple enough to implement. Now when you click the Contacts tab, you'll see a wealth of users with their own custom avatars, rather than the sea of anonymous users you had previous.



If you've got a great suggestion for how to improve the site, let us know.