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Social Aggregator Cliqset Relaunches, More Bad News For Friendfeed

Cliqset -- an online identity platform similar to Facebook's FriendFeed, which lets users merge social information, including status updates, location, and photos onto one platform -- has launched a new version that includes increased sharing capabilities, and organizational tools to separate streams. The new version features widespread file sharing functionality -- music, podcasts, PDFs, and Microsoft Office documents -- while users can share the various types of files with other Cliqset users as part of real-time activity streams. Users can also now organize content from the people they're following into real-time 'streams' of information, allowing users to filter the noise from their aggregate streams.

The relaunch doesn't bode well for FriendFeed, which Facebook paid nearly $50 million last summer, and which has since seen its traffic plummet, according to PR technology blogger Steve Rubel.

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