People start to complain about “clutter” on webpages when content is not interesting or relevant to them.  The New York Times is now beta testing showing links from Blogrunner, a new aggregator, under the headlines of their own stories.  Erick Shonfeld of TechCrunch argues these links don’t belong on the NY Times homepage as they mostly just clutter it up.  It begs the question of how much is too much?  And how do we tune out non-relevant content?

One of the things we are working on at Minggl is helping people tune out clutter and surface friend activity on a page.  For example, when you visit NY Times we’d show you if friends have read or recommended any specific articles.  And you’d be able to respond to their comments on an article in a private forum on the page…only viewable to you and your group of friends.  We think surfacing relevant friend actions on a page is part of the future of the social web and getting around all the clutter that exists.

Are we crazy?? Give us your feedback…