attention-examples

Attention Examples

This page documents examples on the Web of published attention information.

This is part of an open standards community effort to update (even rethink and rewrite) the Attention.xml format on a strong foundation of research of existing examples and formats, as well as leveraging the Attention.XML implementation experience from Attensa, CommerceNet, Technorati, and any other interested Attention developers.

Authors

• Tim Brown
• Tantek Çelik
• Eric Hayes
• Rohit Khare
• Kevin Marks
• Greg Elin

Attention Examples

Implicit Attention

• what I've listened to - Last.FM, and other scripts that do that
  • KevinMarks will contribute more here
  • eg http://www.seabury.edu/faculty/akma/2002_09_22_blogarch.html#e82241126
• ?? email rules files
• AttentionTrust's Related section has a list of nearby software and services that collect attention data.
  • AttentionTrust's attention xml is recorded by their firefox plugin and can be sent to a chosen provider.

Explicit Attention

• blogrolls, friendrolls (e.g. LiveJournal, XFN) - what/who I'm reading
• linkblogs / delicious feeds - how I have tagged sites I've read
• playlists of what songs I like - e.g. on MSN Spaces
• favorites.html files - yes, people actually publish these on the web
  • http://style.cleverchimp.com/misc/favorites.html
• xbel xml format for bookmarks TODO: Should there be a more general bookmark topic? BenWest 14:23, 23 Oct 2006 (PDT)
• Chats and chat logs
• The AttentionStream from ETech05: http://attentionstream.com

Inattention Examples

• killfiles
• email blacklists

See Also

• attention-formats
• attention-brainstorming