Persona Upgrades

As some of the terminology used previously on orbius.com are not clear enough, we have made some significant changes:

·        A person’s dedicated page within an Orb community is now called a “Membership Page” and the term previously used is Persona.

·        When joining an Orb, you can choose to either reveal your own actual identity or “remain anonymous within this community”.

·        Making a connection made in one community means that you are always connected to that person, not only in the orb that you made the connection (unless the person is anonymous). This greatly simplifies the connection process and makes a much larger social graph.

Security Enhancements

·        To increase the level of security of your orb, users are now unable to enter extended HTML like javascript, and input forms

·        All posted HTML comment is now parsed to ensure that it’s HTML compliant. Tags and attributes that are dangerous are removed.

Survey Tool

·        This is a major new feature that allows users to create a survey so you would no longer have to use external survey services for your own website.

·        Orb Community owners can add a rich multi-question, multi-step survey to their Orb with the ability to place a customize invitation widget anywhere on their site.

·        Initial version has a very simple reporting process (XML) but future releases will include a WYSIWYG report.

·        Survey settings are customizable to each orb, with the default being that an Orb gets 1 step with 10 questions.

Default Member Image (Avatar

Orb Communities can now set their own default Avatar so if the user doesn’t upload his or her own image, they will acquire the default orb avatar image.

Search Engine

Our search engine has been replaced with lucene.net. New search options allow users to search within orbs for specific types of content and also filter on date.

Usability

Many, many general product usability enhancements. Below is just a partial list of the changes that have been made:

·        With regards to connection requests, users can now immediately choose the category for a given request.

·        Member listing page now includes an upgraded presentation. Clicking on a user dynamically expands so that users’ record and shows available public information about that user.

·        Users can use their Orbius Id to log in (not necessarily an email address).