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yeah, facebook actually does a pretty good job of this, and so did friendfeed before fb acquired them; I wonder if the friendfeed guys helped improve it.

but as for twitter, I agree completely with the author's assessment

Yeah, somehow Facebook's fuzzy "Top News" system is the best out of the ones I've seen. Unfortunately you still get the loud-friend problem, and muting people requires a lot of thought (and it's not exportable to other clients). Plus, what does "Top News" even mean? As a programmer, I want to know what sorting method is used most of the time, and so it's a slight annoyance to just trust the Facebook to prioritize everything for me.

I'm signing up to friendbinder now, though, and I'd be happy to brainstorm with you.

Some time ago I was thinking about a UI design where "top" and "most recent" news are on the same timeline where you could zoom in to see more and more updates until you see every little update or zoom out where you could only see the most interesting ones. What do you think?