In October, social networking service Cliqset entered public beta. Three months later, the site has received a facelift with some subtle UI improvements, added the ability to share certain file types with friends and added new tools for organizing real-time streams and groups. Cliqset is also launching a Firefox extension (Chrome coming soon) and a new version of its Adobe Air desktop app.

At its heart, Cliqset is designed as way to let people share, discover and discuss content online. You can import streams from tons of different services (including Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds) and each new item in the stream can have its own real-time discussion from other Cliqset users.

What I have always liked about Cliqset is how easy it is to monitor your different social streams. With its new “streams” feature, the granular control over what you see is even more refined. You can create streams of certain users containing specific types of posts (videos or photos, for instance) or streams of certain services. This makes monitoring and discovering information much easier to process.

Cliqset now lets you share certain types of files with users, too. So you can upload a music file or PDF or Word document, and Cliqset users can play back the audio in their stream or preview portions of the PDF or open the office document on the fly.

Cliqset’s Firefox extension offers an easy way to watch your real-time Cliqset stream and share links, videos or comments. I can’t wait for this to come to Google’s Chrome browser, which the Cliqset team said should occur very, very soon.

If you haven’t used Cliqset before and are looking for a good way to manage your different streams and the people who you follow, I definitely recommend signing up and giving it a shot. With the latest wave of updates, the service continues to come into its own.

Tags: Adobe Air, cliqset, facebook, social aggregation, software, twitter

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