...No, he hasn't announced, but Fred Thompson's exploratory campaign did just release Imwithfred.com 2.0. Expectations are high for Thompson's site, perhaps higher than other candidates, as all of the Fred Head's are eager to get information on campaign developments.

To be sure, ImwithFred.com 1.0 wasn't meeting the needs of anyone currently tuned into the race. The "Fred File" blog was infrequently updated, and there were very few other interactive tools on the site, outside what I'd call the standard "organizing" and "fundraising" widgets.

You can read the campaign's vision for ImwithFred.com 2.0 in a post from today.

Here are a few of the new features that I noticed right off the bat:

1. Streaming audio/video. In addition to a welcome video on the main page, there is also a collection of a/v from the campaign trail archived in the "FredCast" section.

2. A Newsroom. Stories from around the web mentioning Fred are accumulated, as are Fred's speeches, commentaries, and press releases.

3. Action center. A "Volunteer HQ" looks promising, much more advanced than anything I think I've seen by the announced candidates -- and with more promised and immediate functionality than McCainSpace.

Hopefully more features will be forthcoming, as Fred continues to roll out his campaign. Which brings me to my next point: Fred must be awfully close to getting in the race with all of these new features...anyone want to take bets on his official announcement date?

UPDATE 1:55 PM: The NYT Caucus blog is linking to this post.