Attention and Focus
November 2nd, 2005 by teemowAttentionTrust.org is a non-profit organization and serves a firefox extension to keep track of your browsing history. It is based on Steve Gillmors idea of attention.xml (technorati developer wiki). As I can see the social component is still missing, it is only your attention and not the attention brought to you by your social network. Read more about social search.
Seth Godin and his start-up Squidoo are building something similar. They try to focus on certain topics creating “lenses” (Seth’s lense). There is a free e-book about it here.
With rollyo you can set up your own searchengine. Just create a searchroll with a certain kind of urls (e.g. music blogs or linux sites). For instance if you create a searchroll from your blogroll you can actually search through your blogs.
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November 4th, 2005 at 6:29 am
I’m the Executive Director of AttentionTrust. Great point on the lack of a social component for the attention data being captured by users of our Firefox extension (versions for other browsers are on the way). But that social component is in the pipeline as developers of “attention services” find ways to actually do something useful (or valuable, or just kewl) with this data. The “ACME Attention Service” that you can currently opt to share data with is just a proof-of-concept, and not an actual service. But you can see the tangible results at http://acmeattentionservice.com/query. Interesting stuff, at the very least. Thanks for the pointer–looking forward to hearing more from you.
Ed