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"FriendFeed's once optional beta, which we think looks a lot like Twitter, is no longer a choice.\nStarting today, all users of the feed aggregation and comment-rich social network will by greeted by the completely overhauled, real-time content chasing, FriendFeed.\nKeeping pace with the real-time Web, FriendFeed's scraped their previous design, thrown in a bunch of useful new site features, and added FriendFeed by Email.\n\nBesides the obvious constant stream of information (that you can pause), you'll notice that the navigation is now on the right-hand side of the page. From there you can quickly access your settings, edit your profile (yes, you have one now), view your lists, visit your groups, and see your saved searches.\n\nAs we mentioned before, FriendFeed now includes smart direct messages that auto-fill names as you type. The same auto-fill behavior exists if you'd like to publicly share a new update with specific individuals. Just select the update box, and edit the \"To:\" field to include the groups, lists, and people of your choosing.\n\nAlso, should you find something that you really enjoy and want to re-share, FriendFeed has introduced a better, faster way to do just that. Now the share link on every item opens up a new window, where you can repost the item to your feed, select the full or tiny URL, grab embed code, or quick share with Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, and Delicious.\nPlus, if you're the type of person who lives and dies by email, the new FriendFeed by Email means you can send and receive FriendFeed updates without ever visiting the site. To post new updates, email share@friendfeed.com, groupname@friendfeed.com (posts directly to a group), or username@friendfeed.com (sends a direct message).\n\nWith the much easier to manage notification options, you can opt in to email, IM, and desktop notifications for a myriad of content and behaviors. Each of these alternative ways to receive content also supports FriendFeed updating, so you can update, comment, and like items right from your inbox, desktop, or IM client.\n\n\nFriendFeed's looking and behaving a lot differently these days, but will these changes result in new members, increased engagement, and better traffic? It's too soon tell, but from the looks of it, 2009 could shape up to be a much better year for the site that tends to live in Facebook's and Twitter's shadow.\nFor more information on FriendFeed's redesign and the new features, watch this video:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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