Netflix: Friends & UI
Good news: I got an e-mail from Netflix yesterday saying that they were rolling out the Friends feature to all Netflix users. I've really enjoyed the feature so far and look forward to expanding my Friends list. It is really interesting when you see 3 or more friends rate a movie differently (especially when it is a big difference between the ratings).

Bad news: For some reason, Netflix has removed the color coding that made their tabs and the star ratings easy to figure out. For example, the "Browse" tab and the overall user rating (for the general Netflix population) were red. The "Recommendations" tab and your own movie ratings were both shown in yellow. The Friends tab and Friends' movie ratings were purple. As a new user, that color coding really helped me learn how the site worked.

Now all of the tabs are the same color (and are in a different location). This is a bummer since the design change doesn't have anything to do with the new Friends functionality. It appears to be a change for change's sake and those usually don't work so well.