FriendFeed Beta

Friendfeed launched their beta version of their site yesterday with a new look - supposed to make the site easier and faster. New features include real-time communication, chat capabilities, ability to pause data stream, posting messages to Twitter, better search filters, and friend suggestions.

I'm not sure if Friendfeed is positioning themselves to compete with Facebook, but considering that one of the FriendFeed founders, Paul Bucheit, is also an R&D developer for Facebook, it could be soon in a place to either support Facebook users, or compete.