Last week as many of you noticed we brought out our 1st major update (release 2.1) since we re-launched the new site on Oct. 31st. In all we addressed over 50 bugs and enhancements. The enhancements were focused on the following areas:
1. Simplifying the Sign Up / Sign In Process

• reduced the amount of information collected
• improved the look & feel of the pages
• simplified the password reset process
• switched to use of eMail for Sign In instead of username
• added support for OpenID

2. Improved the Invite Friends Tools

• check if your friends are already members of Unity08
• made the invite email 100% editable by you

3. Political Capital expansion, added points tracking for:

• voting in Polls
• signing in (limited to once per day)
• completing your address info
• signing the pledge

4. Usability / Home Page changes

• added comment rating system
• added RSS feeds for Forums
• sharing content with a friend
• added Where We Stand graphic to the footer of home page
• a number of graphic and video changes to home page

The next update is scheduled for Dec. 20th... stay tuned.