Genwi added small filters to the feed reader that will have a big impact. The reader now enables everyone to filter subscriptions by Most Popular and Highest Rated. This means if you don’t have time to scroll through all of your updates – why bother?? – you can just see the most popular and highest rated updates from your subscription list.
Genwi wants to help filter through the noise. With some subscriptions updating every few minutes and others updating only once a week – these new features will help filter the updates – by showing updates others found interesting. The term might be “collaborative filtering” of subscriptions. Regardless of what it should be called, it’s pretty useful. Genwi is working to bring similar filters to provide more options for filtering noise and getting the most important, fun and interesting updates.
Of course – the Most Popular, Highest Rated and Most Shared stuff overall is already available. If you want to browse around to see where the buzz is – you can click Web and see the buzz in each category. Genwi will make more filter options available here as well.
Both of these groups of filters – filters to see overall buzz, and filters for the buzz within your subscriptions – only get more useful with more active people. The more people who use Genwi the more interesting it will be to filter your subscriptions by what was highly rated or viewed the most. So tell your friends to start visiting the site.
Genwi will have more updates soon – and we’ll post them here at the blog. Some of these will be some small changes to the site – which, again, will have a big impact in making things easier to use and more enjoyable.
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Ana // June 6, 2008 at 10:37 pm |
Really useful features thanks!