CNET News rolled out its redesigned home page to all readers, adding a third story on top of the page by streamlining its content modules.

The site also now includes tech stories from other sites, an unfiltered content stream it calls “the river,” text at the top of the page informing users when additional content has been posted, highlighted comments from readers, a sharing widget, and a Facebook interface.

The redesign began testing in June.

Editor in chief Scott Ard wrote:

So what’s on tap this time around? The first thing you’ll notice is that we’ve cleaned up the hodge-podge of content modules: “Just in,” “Blogs and opinion,” “More blogs from CNET,” etc. Too often, the same stories were appearing in more than one module and most readers don’t read news content by looking into various baskets with vague labels.

Cleaning up those modules allowed us to highlight a third story at the top of the page.

In addition, we are rolling out a new module just under those “top stories” that allows users to toggle to various groupings of content. By default, this module will display headlines chosen by our editors. From there, users can choose to see stories that are “trending” based on retweets and other measures (we’re still working out a few kinks with this feature, but you can expect to see it soon).

Next up on the page is something that we’ve been calling “the river” because it essentially represents all the content CNET is producing in an untouched stream, with the most recent content on top. You can choose whether to include all the Tweets being sent by CNET editors in this stream.

In the right column, we are continuing our 15-year battle to have this area be useful and not just a ghetto, as many Web publishers refer to it. Here you’ll find an intriguing comment from a CNET reader handpicked by CNET editors, a sharing widget, and a handy interface to Facebook.