The Point is a social platform for people to solve problems they can’t solve alone.

Here's a quick highlight of something cool (thanks Marty for the heads up). The folks at The Point have rolled out a very interesting service for allowing people to build critical mass for civic and other forms of engagement. The service  addresses the challenges of overcoming tipping points that can stop people from becoming involved in civic engagement.  Take a look at the animated introductions that highlight different potential approaches to using The Point - and you'll see what they mean.

And that's the point. This idea is not new. Fundable is conceptually similar and has been around for a while now. What I like about The Point is really the packaging that surrounds it. By framing this idea in a slightly different way and doing a nice job of illustrating different usage scenarios,  The Point is opening this idea to a bunch of exciting new applications. 

Nice job folks. I would love to see you implement this in a more distributed way (e.g. like the ChipIn widget) that doesn't tie it so tightly to your website, but makes this cool functionality more widely available in lots of websites and online social networks.