Palo Alto, Calif. - Online social network Facebook on Monday unveiled the first elements of its website redesign, offering users the opportunity to preview and test new features and functionality before they are made available to all of Facebook's 80 million members over the coming days. In development over the past six months, the redesign includes an integration of all of a user's various feeds in a single stream of updates. TechCrunch noted a "Friendfeedization" of the Facebook home page, a nod to the simpler stream aggregation service Friendfeed.

Mountain View, Calif. - FriendFeed, a service that lets users keep up with what Web pages, photos, videos and music their friends and family are sharing, has announced the release of a developer platform. The FriendFeed API will allow developers to integrate the service into other applications, such as creating a mobile phone interface, or FriendFeed blog widget.

Mountain View, Calif. - FriendFeed, the developer of a social media platform that lets users keep up with what Web pages, photos, videos and music their friends and family are sharing, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $5 million in its first round of financing, from Benchmark Capital and company co-founders Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh.

Palo Alto, Calif. - FriendFeed, a social media alerts service founded by four developers involved with Googe's e-mail and mapping services, on Monday announced its launch, The New York Times reported. FriendFeed lets users see what websites their friends are visiting, and also supports 23 other Web services, such as YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Slashdot and Last.fm. The alerts of friends' activities are presented in a streaming feed that can be posted on any Web page. Palo Alto, Calif.-based FriendFeed was incubated at venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.