FriendFeed now lets you individualize your account with six new designer themes. When you select a theme, your FriendFeed account will always include your theme, and other people looking at your profile page will see it in whatever theme they have chosen.
FriendFeed says that it plans to allow users to customize themes down the line as well as give users the ability to create an entirely new theme. Twitter and Gmail also let you add themes and designs to your homepages but some of FriendFeed’s themes have a nicer design, in my opinion. On the other hand, Gmail has a good amount of variety when it comes to choosing a theme. The advantage to Twitter’s themes is that you are able to choose multiple designs in different colors.
OMG!!! Themes!
they indeed from google. remember gmail themes?
quite nice
HEY! Where is my syphilis theme
Sorry I don’t use Syphillus anymore.
Helvetica theme is the best. At least until they make my Eggplant Orange Juice With Blood theme. http://friendfe...-can-t-wait-for
Same here. It’s a whole different experience now.
Cool! I’ve immediately chosen “Butterfly Corner” theme, it’s so pretty
themes… this is … this is WOW, such an awesome revolutionary feature
come on, themes !? you’re excited about themes ?
It’s very pretty, how long until Facebook unveil themes?
Is there a theme I can select that will enable me to give a shit about FriendFeed?
Does this avatar make me look fat?
No, but your glands do.
The themes are visible only if you are logged in. I kinda’ don’t understand why it has been done this way. Is there any logic to this?
As to the sh..t pipe above: show me another service where I would be able to create a group, embed it into my site and make it visible to the community at the same time.
You are just not doing anything yourself, BStters! Start doing something, you will know the value of things immediately.
The themes are for users not for their profiles. I like this much better than having each profile with a different theme.
Not bad
I like the idea of them having themes. I am a strong proponent of having user themes. I first got a whiff of user customization back when I was on Wincustomize.com and I have not looked back .
Done right it can be a great benefit for keeping people on your site (lots of site stickiness). Done wrong and you end up with server problems, and a site that freezes the browser because the use put all kinds of junk on their user page.
Psst…windows live already supports themes per user, which are visible by anyone who visits your profile
(and there are dynamic themes based on weather/time of day too! 
I like Helvetica. My page looks almost like nytimes.com, in black on white
I like the fact that each user sees their own theme across the entire site instead of having different themes for different profiles.
I don’t use FriendFeed enough to know how this will affect my FriendFeed experience but my first thought was that it doesn’t go with the philosophy of expressive profile pages. Its more of a profiled surf experience.
My second thought is that maybe that suits FriendFeed. You get the whole FriendFeed experience filtered though your own vision of choice and no one can impose a look you don’t want to experience.
As Im not familiar with people’s usage pattern (visiting other’s profiles or gets satisfied by reading other users posts in the private feed) the future gets to tell me if this theme system works or not.
I don’t use FriendFeed enough to know how this will affect my FriendFeed experience but my first thought was that it doesn’t go with the philosophy of expressive profile pages.
Done right it can be a great benefit for keeping people on your site