`Tis international talk like a shipmate tide, an’ here`s how ye can join in th’ fun…or in non pirate, it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and here’s how you can join in the fun!
The official International Talk Like a Pirate Day site is here, and while it’s archaic as a gentleman o’ fortune, it’s [...]

FriendFeed has launched a major redesign of their lifestreaming service after several months in beta. You can see our previous coverage on the beta here, here and here.
Along with the introduction of a fresher look and sidebar navigation, the biggest change, and perhaps the most welcomed is the introduction of duplicate detection, a long sort [...]

Life streaming service Strands has launched a major upgrade, including usability improvements and improved visuals.
Included on the list (thanks to Drew)
* more prominent “strand” (center column) - fluid width
* cleaner UI
* larger avatar images (reupload your avatar image to get better quality at large size)
* less lightboxes
* new “share something” box
* more prominent play icons
Louis [...]

FriendFeed has updated its beta testing site, delivering tweaks to the layout after taking feedback on the initial beta release.
The most significant change sees the navigation sidebar shifting from the right hand side of the page to the left, bringing functions that were previously in tabs to the key visual focus point on the page. [...]

A mysterious browser plug-in billed as an all-around 2.0 solution is finally about to launch. SemantiNet has been developing its tool in Israel since 2006 and now says it’ll be released next month. The company has also just raised $3.4 million and is preparing to open an office in the heart of Silicon [...]

That there is a finite number of hours in a day is a given, and as more and more services come online, our ability to divide our time across multiple sites diminishes. The question then becomes do you effectively manage this time, or do you lose focus with some areas of your online presence missing [...]

As we reported August 25, social life streaming platform FriendFeed launched a new beta version of the site, presumably as a test platform prior to full time release. If you’re a FriendFeed user and haven’t tried it yet, you can use the beta version by visiting beta.friendfeed.com
The beta does offer welcomed extras to the FriendFeed [...]

Inspired by the always affable Andrew Sayer, we ask the question: what would FriendFeed look like during a Zombie attack on American soil?

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Ever wanted to show off the latest entries from a blog within your signature? A new startup is making it easy.
German-based FeedsR.Us lets you create an automatically-generated graphical signature that shows the last four headlines from an RSS-enabled site. Here’s one I just threw together for The Inquisitr:

The setup is incredibly simple. [...]

Google’s hoping to pack more punch into its Blogger publishing platform with a soon-to-be-added ability to have FriendFeed-style “followers” on your blog.
The feature will look familiar. Anyone with a Google account, it seems, can opt to follow a blog. Then the site owner can add a widget with all the followers’ [...]

Back in May, having only been on the service a short time on my second attempt, I posted a FriendFeed wishlist of things I’d like to see on the service. The FriendFeed team has continued to innovate, introducing a new beta service this week that offers a range of extra functionality that makes the service [...]

New service Backtype offers a comment tracking service that doesn’t rely on site installs or third party plugins.
The simple to use service starts by asking users for some examples of sites they comment on, then cleverly goes looking for other sites. The process isn’t perfect, for example even with my relatively obscure name it [...]

A busy day on the FriendFeed front, with the growingly popular life streaming service adding a range of customizable widgets and proposing a new protocol for updating websites. See JR’s post for details on the widget side.
The new update protocol proposed by FriendFeed aims to augment existing feeds in Atom and RSS by making updates [...]