My favourite social news media site, Newsvine.com, has been “relaunched” today!

Call it a redesign. Call it Newsvine 2.0. Call it whatever you want, but today Newsvine is proud to announce the first major overhaul of our site since launching a little more than a year ago. It’s an exciting thing for the team and for the now 600,000 people who visit the site every month because it not only provides a hugely enhanced front page but also showcases a lot of the great technology we’ve been building behind the scenes over the last several months.

The biggest change you will notice is the front page. You can now add modules and boxes and all kinds of things in a true web 2.0 spirit. You decide how you want the front page to look like. This is great because I know a lot of people, including me, who have complained that the Newsvine front page has been too much centred on USA and their local news.

Other new features include:

• Modules!
• Local Headlines and Weather
• Newsvine Live
• The News in Pictures
• Newsvis
• External RSS Feeds
• Newsvine Group Showcase
• Top Seeds from Source
• Super Widescreen

The last feature there called “Super Widescreen” is something users with big screens will love (and yet again something that includes me). It let’s you make the front page bigger in width to “whopping 1300 pixels of width”. Lovely!

Read more about the new features and the brand new “Evergreen” at the official Newsvine blog.