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Source: VentureBeat

May 07, 2009

Summary

FriendFeed, the service that culls your activities on various social networks into a single stream, is seeing a surge in new users, at least from anecdotal evidence (including signups that VentureBeat’s staff is seeing).

The increase comes after FriendFeed redesigned its site last week so you can easily read what your friends are up to around the web in a real-time stream. In fact, one of our writers, Dean Takahashi, noted he’s getting more friends signing up to Friendfeed than he’s getting on Twitter. Is the redesign that popular?

Perhaps, but a one reason for the new subscribers is that the redesign makes it easier to find friends on the site who are already your friends on other services, including Gmail, Facebook and Twitter.

FriendFeed, remember, has some similarities to Facebook. You can import your activities from scores of other web sites — Twitter, Digg, Netflix, etc. — and see what your friends are up to when they do the same.

It’s a sort of open social hub, with threaded conversations, and offers a simple button for “liking” shared information. Faceboo

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Comments (2)

Michaelfidler,

May 08, 2009

It's a noticeable change!