TinBu, a leading provider of patent-pending interactive data to online media groups around the world, is pleased to announce their interactive gas pricing module now allows consumers to directly report gas prices in their local areas.
TinBu's interactive gas pricing module is in use on 100's of media web sites around the country. Television news sites, newspapers web sites, radio web sites, city guides, and other web sites rely on TinBu's gas pricing module to deliver local gas station prices to their online audiences. This gas pricing module is available in English and Spanish. The addition of the new Consumer Price Reporting feature is designed to allow local consumers to directly participate in the effort to make lower priced gas available to American families by informing people about the gas prices at specific stations in their local areas.
"Our interactive gas price module has over 140,000 stations nationwide in its database," said John Brier, TinBu's CEO. "This new online consumer reporting feature will allow us to add additional stations across the country, and also to update prices at specific stations faster than ever. In today's economy gas station's are changing their prices several times a day at times, and this new feature will allow consumers who register as gas spotters to directly participate in reporting gas prices in their local areas," added Brier.
Consumers who are interested in registering for this new program will be able to do so directly at the media web sites around the country that are using the TinBu gas pricing module. Once registered consumers will be able to log into a private account anytime they wish where they will be able to report local gas prices on a station by station basis.
The interactive gas pricing module has the following interactive features:
- Daily gas station price monitoring on over 140,000 stations in U.S.
- Available in English or Spanish.
- Searchable by zip code or city name.
- Shows top 10 highest and lowest prices in every location.
- Built in mapping feature showing location of every station listed.
- Interactive map of U.S. showing current high and low for each state when moused over.
- Site visitors can set up customized alerts to notify them of desired gas price changes in their selected location.
- Current crude oil price with percentage change
- U.S. average gas price.
- U.S. lowest gas price with location.
- U.S. highest gas price with location.
- Historical fuel price information by state.
- Gas saving tips for consumers.
- MPG analysis for 20,000+ vehicles from 1985 to today.
- Personal annual fuel cost estimate for people based on their driving habits and current vehicle.
- Tell a friend feature.
"The media groups that use TinBu's interactive content platform do so because we offer their online audiences best of breed content that is guaranteed to measurably increase page views, site traffic, repeat site visitors, user satisfaction, and revenues. We feel giving online consumers the ability to directly interact with our gas pricing module, and to participate in reporting prices in their local area, is something our customers will find to be a valuable addition to their web sites," concluded Brier.
Online media groups interested in learning more about TinBu's interactive gas pricing module, or any of their other content modules in the areas of weather, lottery results, horoscopes, flight tracking, stocks/finance, recipes, celebrity entertainment news, swimsuit models, MPG analysis, international soccer, U.S. mortgages, or fitness videos can contact the Company directly via their web site at http://www.tinbu.com/ .
About TinBu:
TinBu uses patent pending technology to provide interactive data products to leading online and wireless companies worldwide, driving multiple millions of page views every month. TinBu's clients include AOL, AOL Latino, AOL Canada, AOL Mexico, Telemundo, MSN, MSN Espanol, MSNBC, USA TODAY, Bell South, ATT, Media General, Clear Channel Television, CBS Television, ABC Television, Fox Television, CBS Radio, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Tribune, Toronto Star, CBC New Media, My Red Fish, Local Solutions Networks, Motricity, uClick, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Hello Metro, New York Daily News, DirecTV, Univision, Terra Networks, Yahoo!, People PC, The Washington Post, and many others.
