Thanks to your feedback and suggestions, below are some of our recent fixes and improvements. As always if you have any ideas for new features or improvements, please don't hesitate to email us your comments or start a discussion on our discussion forum.

1. We have made Swaptree even easier to use, by creating several new tools that enable you to quickly get the content from other sites onto your Swaptree account.
   
   For example, if you want to add a list of Amazon’s best sellers, or Barnes and Noble’s editors picks, to your "want list", just enter the URL address and Swaptree will instantly retrieve all the items from that page. It also works if you have your media stored on another site or in a .txt or a .csv file. You can find all of these nifty tools on the Swaptree Tools page.
   
   

1. Created swaptree groups! Now you can create or join a smaller community within swaptree, where you can learn about and discuss new authors, musicians, movies and games. And since we don't charge for trades, groups are a great way for you to learn about (and borrow) the book, music, movie or game collection of your neighbor, co-worker, or book club member.
   
   So create a swaptree group today for your company, building, neighborhood, book club, on-line community or any other group that might enjoy sharing their items for free!
   
   

1. Created a great new way for you to browse the items you can get in trade. By clicking on any of your media counts in the top left corner, and then clicking on the new browsing option “Newly Available” we will show you all the NEW items that you can get in trade, since you last logged in. So if you don’t want to search through all your items that you can get, just look at the latest items that you can get, and act fast, because they might be gone by the time you log in again.
   
   
2. Improved the media home pages, by allowing you to see the profiles of all the members who recently added that media type to their “have list”.
   
   
3. Now when looking at all the items a friend has reviewed, you can now sort their reviews by media type.
   
   
4. Improved the discussion forums, by showing you the profile pictures of the members taking part in the discussion.
   
   
5. Fixed a bug with the email importing feature, so if you had a problem with that last time, give it another shot now.
   
   
6. If you have more than one Amazon wish list, you can now import all of them, using the Amazon Import feature on your “want list”.
   
   
7. Improved the Amazon toolbar, so that you can now get the items you want for free, even faster and easier.
   
   

1. Updated the postage rates to reflect the recent rate changes made by the USPS. Visit here for more information:
   
   http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/ratesandfees.htm
   
   
2. Updated the Facebook application so that we now use Facebook's invite a friend feature.
   
   
3. Made a few crtitical imporvements that should significantly inrease the number of trades ocurring on the site.
   
   
4. Created several features to improve customer support and communication.
   
   

1. On the swaptree homepage, we now show you the profile images of some of the newest members to join swaptree.
   
   
2. Improved the Facebook application by assuring that we were only showing the most relevant information and data.
   
   
3. Improved our browsing tools by refactoring how we calulate most popular.
   
   
4. Now show the images of the items you are sending and receiving when contacting your trade partners.
   
   
5. Created several features to improve customer support and communication.
   
   

1. Can now instantly add all the books, CDs, DVDs, and video games on your Amazon wish list, to your swaptree "want list". Just enter the email associated with your Amazon wish list and swaptree will instantly import all of your items, in an easy to use interface.
   
   
2. Can quickly invite all of your friends from your Microsoft Outlook contact list, to come join your friends netwok on swaptree.
   
   
3. Created several features to improve customer support and communication.
   
   

1. Can quickly invite your friends to join swaptree by your email account contact list. Also allows you to instantly see which of your friends are currently using swaptree.
   
   
2. Can now see all your college classmates that are currently using Swaptree. This enables you to trade within your local college or university.
   
   
3. Started a promotion on the site that will reward you for spreading the word about swaptree.
   
   
4. Improved support for items that have substantially higher values such as CD box sets and DVD television series.
   
   
5. Can instantly view all the users that want or have any item.
   
   
6. Improved interface and functionality for contacting another user.
   
   
7. Improved rating system.
   
   
8. Created several features to improve customer support and communication.
   
   

1. Created a new swaptree Facebook application.
   
   
2. Improved user profile display.
   
   
3. Improved interface for users who are unable to confirm their email.
   
   
4. Implemented several features to improve customer support and communication.
   
   

1. Improved user email preferences, allowing you to determine which emails you do and do not receive.
   
   
2. Made shipping label more intuitive.
   
   
3. Improved user profile display.
   
   
4. Improved books category names.
   
   
5. Implemented several features to improve customer support and communication.
   
   

1. Built new friends feature, enabling you to create a list of friends on swaptree and see what books, CDs, DVDs and videos games they want and have.
   
   
2. Improved system for supporting UPCs and ISBNs not currently in our database.
   
   
3. Now automatically take you to trades you need to accept or reject when you log in.
   
   
4. Implemented several features to improve customer support and communication.
   
   

1. SWAPTREE IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Anyone can now join and start trading. So no more "private" beta, special invitations, or limits on the number of people you can invite. So what are you waiting for? Invite every single person in your address book. The bigger "the tree" gets, the more we all can get for free!
   
   
2. The site now has a much lighter and modern look and feel. We also moved some of the browsing tools (search and media tabs) around so that they are now more accessible.
   
   
3. Many new browsing tools to enable you to more easily find and discover the media you are interested in. For example, you can now easily see the most popular, highest rated, and recently released books, CDs, DVDs and video games on Swaptree.
   
   
4. Can now view the "profiles" of other users, which among other things, will allow you to see what other users are trading and want, and read their latest book, music, movies and game reviews.
   
   
5. Can instantly look and view all the users that want or have any item.
   
   
6. Created a new way for you to view their "my trades" page. On my trades page you can now look at all their previous trades in a small list view, allowing you to get to that trade that you have to rate, accept, or ship quickly and easily.
   
   
7. Item detail pages are now smarter about when they show links “WHAT CAN I GET, if I trade this item?” and “to get this item, WHAT DO I NEED TO TRADE?”.
   
   
8. We are now providing more information on whether a trade is 3-way trade.
   
   
9. Significantly improved all of our book, music, movie and video game data.
   
   
10. Combined contact user, shipping tracking, and reporting an item not received into one user friendly interface.
    
    

1. Announced public launch date - July 4, 2007.
   
   
2. New rating feature in the item detail rollover. Allows you to not only see the overall rating of any item on swaptree, but also enables you to quickly rate any item.
   
   
3. Improved category names.
   
   
4. Made trade emails more intuitive.
   
   
5. Improved contact user interface, by giving the user easy access to the relevant trade information.
   
   
6. Updated all postage rates to properly reflect the postal service's recent rate increases.
   
   
7. Users are now notified when they have beta invitations available that they can send to their friends.
   
   

1. New rollover feature- hover over any item and see the details about that item.
   
   
2. When you edit or delete any item on your “want list” or “have list” we now stay on the page that you were on previously.
   
   
3. Dreamcast and Playstation Portable video games are now supported.
   
   
4. Improved interface for browsing by movie director and actor.
   
   
5. Prompts for when a trade is complete or pending are now more intuitive.
   
   

1. Improved the intelligence of the trade matching engine.
   
   
2. Made it easier re-iniate a trade that may have expired.
   
   
3. Messages regarding the necessity of shipping an item are smarter and more intuitive.
   
   
4. Improved the item detail page so that ratings and warnings are appearing together.
   
   
5. Created a new email that lets our users know of recent features added to the site.
   
   
6. Improved the behavior of the Google maps.
   
   
7. Improved the discussion board displays.
   
   
8. Trade that need to be rated are now ordered from oldest to newest.
   
   

1. Improved the contact user feature.
   
   
2. Now remind users via the website and an email, when they need to rate their trade partners.
   
   
3. Improved trade limit logic.
   
   
4. Improved messaging throughout the site.
   
   
5. Simplified the links in accept trade emails.
   
   

1. Created a new “take tour feature” that helps explain exactly how swaptree works.
   
   
2. Users can now invite a limited number of people into the swaptree beta.
   
   
3. New feature that shows you other titles by the same artist, author, director, actor, and game category, when you add items to your have list that don't currently allow you to receive any items in trade.
   
   
4. Using the tracking statuses of packages to be smarter about when to prompt users to rate other users.
   
   
5. Improved browsing displays to handle unusually long titles and author names.
   
   
6. Make discussion forums easier to browse by showing more discussion threads on a page.
   
   
7. Better advanced notification features to inform everyone when swaptree will be down for maintenance.
   
   
8. Improved user interface of the the swaptree.com landing page.
   
   
9. Improved indentification of swaptree staff responses in discussion forums.
   
   
10. Improved handling of back button when browsing through pages of items.
    
    

1. Added new browsing feature that allows you to view the items that were recently added to other members’ want lists.
   
   
2. Improved the contact another user interface.
   
   
3. All browsing pages now show more images.
   
   
4. Recommended items on home page will now show all media types.
   
   
5. Lists will show more popular and relevant items.
   
   
6. The swaptree landing page has been improved to handle addition web browsers (especially Safari).
   
   
7. Made it easy for users to unsubscribe from emails.
   
   
8. Improved browsing by artist displays and how we handle articles in titles.
   
   

1. Improved paging on the page where we show all the items that you can get.
   
   
2. Improved calculation of item popularity.
   
   
3. Improved forgot password feature.
   
   
4. Improved handline of expired trades including warnings to users and increased monitoring.
   
   

1. New browse "by authors and artists" feature on pages that show you all of the items you can receive, so now when you are looking at all the items you can get on swaptree, you can also browse those items by author, actor, director, and or musician.
   
   
2. When browsing items all items you can receive, you can now browse by category.
   
   
3. Showing many more images while browsing items.
   
   
4. New landing page for swaptree.com. Visitors can now get a quick taste of trading through this interactive page.
   
   
5. Fixed an error with the "add to want" link in Mac Safari.
   
   
6. Combined the "fiction" and "fiction genres" book categories.
   
   
7. A number of pages will no longer recommend items that are already on your want or have list, or any item that you have already traded for.
   
   
8. Improved site security by SSL encrypting all applicable pages.
   
   
9. Billing for postage labels now occurs at the end of the month, therefore significanly reducing transaction costs for our users.
   
   
10. Improved site security by using email instead of username for the login.
    
    
11. Improved logic on when to consider a trade complete.
    
    
12. Improved browsing by actor and director.
    
    
13. Improved estimated delivery times for items shipped using the label system.
    
    
14. Improved the process of reporting that an item has not been received in a number of areas, including more accurately predicting when an item should in fact be arriving.
    
    

1. Improvements that will help with not showing the items that you already have or have traded for.
   
   
2. Improved user interface when adding an item to your "have list", including more intelligent messages when you add an ISBN/UPC of an item we do not currently support.
   
   
3. Improved the item detail page.
   
   
4. Improved general search, so that directors will be a separate category from actors.
   
   
5. On you "want list" you can now choose to view only those items that you can get now.
   
   
6. On you "have list" you can now choose to view only those items that currently get you items in trade.
   
   
7. Fixed an error where an item on a user’s "have list" was still appearing as involved in a trade even after that trade had been completed or cancelled.
   
   
8. Using the shipping statuses we receive from the USPS, we implemented several new functions that greatly improve the site. Including, accurately predicting when an item will arrive, when a trade is complete, when a user will be allowed to report that they have not received their item, and intelligently prompting traders to provide user ratings.
   
   
9. Improved the want list and have list so that items are correctly sorted alphabetically.
   
   
10. Improve shipping label intelligence so that the correct postage class will be selected. This means that items will be shipped the fastest and cheapest way possible.
    
    
11. Enabled the ability to subscribe to a discussion forum thread so that you will be notified if another user adds a comment to that thread.
    
    
12. Improved support for 14 digit UPC codes.
    
    
13. Implemented a new feature that allows you to contact your trade partners through the swaptree website. Allowing traders to communicate will help to improve the trade experience.
    
    
14. Now show warning to users who are trading multi-CD or multi-DVD sets, such as television series and musical box sets.
    
    
15. Improved logic to recalculate all of the items that a user can receive.
    
    

1. Improved user rating system, especially with respect to potential negative ratings.
   
   
2. Improved displays and emails for new users who have yet to add any items to their want or have list.
   
   
3. Users can now use the site to track items that was shipped using swaptree’s custom labels.
   
   
4. Improved handling of users who let trades expire or reject trades.
   
   
5. Improved the accuracy of the number of items you can get.
   
   
6. Improved trade logic for new users.
   
   
7. Improved searching by ISBN or UPC code.
   

1. When moving an item from your "own list" to your "have list", we now show you all the items you can get for that item.
   
   
2. Better handling on DVD item detail paged for discs that don't have actors listed.
   
   
3. Improved logic that determines how many concurrent trades a user can have.
   
   
   

1. New add to trade feature. Now as soon as you are done entering a valid ISBN/UPC into swaptree we will INSTANTLY show you the image of the item you just entered, so you can easily verify that it is the correct item. This means you no longer have to hit submit, to only then find out that the ISBN you entered was not correct or not in our database A much friendlier and more efficient user interface.
   
   
2. Made improvements to the process which provides recommended item.
   
   
3. Expanded the amount of time before a trade will expire from 24 hours to 48.
   
   
4. Improved our recognition of additional ISBN and UPC codes.
   
   

1. Improved main search so that once you have entered your search term, to search any specific media type, you simply have to click on the media tab, and do not need to reenter your search term.
   
   
2. Improved clarity of shipping labels so that they can be printed more clearly.
   
   
3. Improved browsing displays.
   
   
4. Improved the status messages for trades.
   
   
5. Improved how the general search feature handles "noise" words.
   
   
6. Created a new – "have – but not trading" list. Have an item that you just aren't yet ready to part with? You can now list those items on swaptree as well. Also, all of the items that you have recently received in trade will also appear on the same list. When you are done with an item and want to trade it, just click a button and it will be entered into our trading algorithms.
   
   
7. When user clicks "add another item to your have list" we automatically place your cursor in the ISBN/UPC field.
   
   
8. Improved security by adding CAPTCHA to all necessary places.
   
   
9. Fixed error that was moving the wrong item to a users 'own list' when a trade was complete.
   
   

1. Improved message when entering a items we do not currently support.
   
   
2. Improved handling of users who let trades expire.
   
   
3. Improved the accuracy of our provided postage amounts.
   
   
4. Previously the items on your want and "have list" were being displayed in some strange random order. We are now showing them alphabetically, which makes it easier to find that Backstreet Boys CD on your trade list. Furthermore, we have added a pull-down on both screens, so that you can choose to view your items by media type. So if you just want to see all the books that you have, just select that option in the pull-down.
   
   
5. Improved user interface for search.
   
   
6. Now showing full item titles on all item detail pages.
   
   
7. Improved user interface of discussion forums.
   
   
8. Improved browsing by categories.
   
   

1. Implemented entirely new search technology. Now when you do a search, you can see your results in the search box as soon you type each letter. The more you type, the narrower your results will be. We even break your results into categories like "book titles", "book authors", "dvd actors" etc. So now you can see if we have the item you are looking for immediately, without waiting for a search page to load.
   
   
2. Improved displays for trade expiration date and time.
   
   
3. Fixed issue with punctuation when entering a description of an item.
   
   
4. On the left hand side of the site, you will now see a "Recently Added Items’ link. This is a list of all of the items that other users have recently added to their "have list". You can view these items by the specific media type of your choice. If you add any of these items to your "want list", it probably won't be too long until you can get that item in trade.
   
   
5. Users can now user then enter key to login
   
   
6. Updated the press page to reflect recent press about swaptree.
   

1. Improved the "add to want" experience. Several of you indicated that you did not need to see your "want list" to verify your items were successfully added. Therefore, we are now using a little website magic so that you can add to your "want list" without leaving the page you are on. This allows you to add items faster and easier. So do a search for "Pearl Jam", and then as fast as you can click, you can add as much grunge as your little heart desires.
   
   
2. Improved discussion forums displays.
   
   
3. Made it easier to add multiple items to your have list by designing a more user friendly interface. Several of you asked for the ability to add an item to your "have list" and then, in one click, add another item. Ask and ye shall receive.