We’ve been pretty busy here of late, toiling on many things both seen and unseen to the nake eye. To wit:
- Improved (and still improving) search. We’ve now deployed Sphinx to provide faster response times and more relevant results.
- New ‘Change City’ interface. Now, instead of browsing a massive list of towns and cities in each Province, simply start typing the city you’d like to switch to in the form field. The autocomplete functionality will pull up the available results and, when selected, will automatically direct you there.
- New content areas. While these are new and still very lightweight, the next push at troovy will be toward fleshing these out considerably. They are: Voices (local blogs and community updates) and Events (local happenings). Stay tuned for some great new directions with respect to content strategy around these and other pending sections.
- iPhone application. No it’s not done yet, but we’re very close. I will announce here when it is available on iTunes. This is a feature we’re very excited about needless to say.
- Some of you may have noticed some stray twitter posts over the past few weeks. Yep, we’re testing out some simple integration there, most notably the tweeting of locations troovy members check into. Nifty.
There are a couple of other things in the hopper that we’ll keep under our hats at this time. For now, it’s all about hardening the site, squashing bugs and getting quality content flowing through its veins.
As always, our eyes, ears and doors are always open, so if you have anything to say, hit me up right here.
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