All your attention
February 10th, 2006 by teemowJust joined the attention trust group on last.fm.
This is a group for Last.fm users who are interested in making more effective use of their “attention data” (including, but not limited to, all the data we’re sharing with Last). We’re big fans of Last, and we love their service, but we’d also love to know what Last is planning to do with this data. We hope this group will prompt some interesting discussions between Last and its users. For more information, visit AttentionTrust at www.AttentionTrust.org.
Ed Batista, executive director of Attention Trust, would like to see last.fm joining the attention trusts principles.
So what’s happening with your last.fm data? The collected data of your listening behaviour is under a creative commons license and is available via the audioscrobbler webservices. There is a new artist wiki feature on beta.last.fm. The content of the wiki is licensed under GFDL.
I’m recording my clickstream with the attention trust firefox extension and root.net for a while now. /ROOT says that there are 26.000 URIs in my clickstream. So it’s possible to search within the data, list my google/yahoo searches and delicious bookmarks and view topics and trends I’m following. Mining your data is still in its infants, but it’s important for me to collect my attention data already. Topics are not very narrowed and trends are probably based on a long period of time, but they say improvements are under way. You still can’t create your own topics or tags. But if you have a look at this post they know that the long tail is important and I’m sure there is a feature coming up that let users create meta data.
Update: Today last.fm released their beta features to the public.
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