“APML allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of your ranked interests.” APML Website
“…consolidated, structured descriptions of people’s interests and dislikes. The information about your interests and how much each means to you (ranking) is stored in a way so that computers and web-based services can easily read it, interpret it, process it and pass it on should you request and permit them to do so.” - Marjolein Hoekstra
Robin Good over at Master New Media gives a brilliant overview of a new(ish) standard mark-up language - APML - this time for tracking people’s interest and attention profiles.
Attention Profiling: APML Beginner’s Guide - Robin Good’s Latest News
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