Friendfeed, the lifestreaming site that aggregates your friends social web information into one simple feed, has just launched a new beta site that takes a lot of suggestions and problems users have had into account in altering the service and reducing what can be a pretty extreme amount of noise on one’s main page.

I’ve just started using Friendfeed (I know, five months late) and really enjoy it. It’s sort of like the news feed on Facebook but on Barry Bonds-esqe steroids. There are many supported services that aggregate and basically reveal all of your friends’ usage of the sites they connect to their feed, which congeals into one giant feed a la Facebook news feed. Bloggers can also connect to their RSS feeds so in a day their friends may get all of their blog posts, Twitter posts, social bookmarking, Google Reader, Netflix queue, every picture put on Flickr, etc. and so on.

The beta now offers separate friends lists that allow users to switch between personal and professional friends, as well as favorites, but you can customize this to your liking. Also, users can now post photos much easier on the site. These improvements follow up on the “best of” feature launched in June that takes the most popular entries in your friend’s feeds and aggregates them into a smaller, more manageable feed.

Additionally, Friendfeed is now offering a blog widget whereby bloggers can post a mini-version of their feed on their blogs, as well as a badge that invites users to join and a smaller, less invasive chiclet that users can click on to become your friend.

I know a lot of bloggers like to include a Twitter feed on their blog, but will this lead them to replace that with their Friendfeed feed? It’s hard to see why not, unless you’re a loyal and frequent user of Twitter and don’t want to clutter it up with a bunch of other stuff.

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