Jaiku could learn from Facebook

Under: Internet; 1 year, 8 months ago at 10:21 am
Stumble it! Del.icio.us it!

Facebook’s news feeds allow you to choose “what do you want to read” and “who do you hear from”. They also have the option of choosing “what do you want to broadcast and to whom”.

Jaiku could integrate the following privacy options:

  • Control who receives your jaikus/feeds (or only showing certain information to a certain group/person)
  • Control who you want to hear more of or less of (relatives, friends etc)
  • Control what you want to see more or less of (blogs feeds, del.icio.us feeds, video feeds, flickr feeds etc)

Having this option can certainly add value (read: more personal and relevant) to the end users such as myself. But then again, this is just me. ;)

2 Comments »

  1. Well, Jaiku does do the “what do you want to read” and “who do you hear from”.

    You can unsubscribe from a particular feed in your contact’s profile. But Jaiku kind of does it the other way round I guess. It lets the person who receives updates choose what he wants to see. As opposed to letting the person updating his presence decide who sees what.

    Comment by Ram — April 26, 2007 @ 9:19 am

  2. Yeah I noticed…but they actually have “What do I want to read from X”, “What do I want to read from Y” etc options.

    What I hope it can do is to have a setting which gives the user the option of choosing “Generally, I want more Flickr feeds but I don’t care who it’s coming from and less del.icio.us feeds” for instance. And of course allowing the user to choose who to broadcast his/her feeds to as well.

    Phew, so many “s …

    Comment by sriram — April 26, 2007 @ 10:36 am

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