MiShow, a new photo/video sharing site that targets mothers/families who want to post "biographies" online (that I discussed on Monday) is promoting its content control capabilities that enables subscribers to more precisely determine who may see specific areas within each site, as the press release (unncessary pdf file -- boo) says.
MiShow describes itself as a "personal biography service for mobile phones that helps people preserve and share their lives as multimedia 'television' channels."
The release says,"MiShow users create different channels and define who can view each specific channel. MiShow gives its users the control to “broadcast” many channels and to segment audiences.
"Audiences for each channel are by invitation only."
Selecting viewers
The company says, "Different friends or family members, depending on your relationship and areas of commonality, will be interested in various slices of your life. For instance parents sharing baby photos don’t want to share them with everyone.
"Similarly, an old college society member or teammate might have access to a very different slice of your life than a colleague."
It makes sense to me to allow you to determine who may see your entries. Content controls will becoming increasingly important as families -- and governments -- are apprehensive about who watches what type of content.
Once our much-too-conservative and technologically doltish Congress gets involved in Internet content controls, though, you've got to be careful about censorship.
User control
Matt Stowell, the president of MiShow, says, "MiShow service is not a personal billboard or wall of graffiti, but rather a permanent record of an individual’s life and experiences."
That sounds somewhat similar to Nokia discussing its LifeBlog software that provides a synched timeline of e-mail, SMS, photos and vides on your computer and cellular phone.
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