Justplain

In follow up on my attention post yesterday, i have been listening to the Gillmore Gang podcast of march 17th on this subject and i think i have a little bit better understanding on the subject now.

Right now Steve Gillmore is working on the gesturebank, which will be a ‘AttentionTrust Approved Service’ with which you can exchange your meta- or attentiondata. Only those who contribute to this service will gain from it.
The whole idea is build arround the concept that there is too much information (good information), that we have too litle time to consume all this information but that we also don’t want to mis any relevant information. So what we want is relevant personalized data.
The gesturebank aims to be a open, transparent and trusted pool of metadata. Only those who feed this pool (i.e. with the data from the Attention recorder) will be able to gain from it.

So if i understand it correctly, the gesturebank will aggregate metadata and will share this with services that are build on top of that pool of data. Inbetween the pool of data there is some kind of intelligence (inference-engine) that will make it possible for the service to offer personalized information to the users.
So if i have installed the attention-recorder and share my metadata with gesturebank, i would be able to sign up for an account with a (meme-tracking) service that is build on top of the pool of metadata and they would be able to offer me information that is based on my personal preferences. Am i right?

I am glad to hear i’m not the only one who has difficulties understanding the attention thing. One of the panelmembers suggests that there needs to be a better explanation on the whole subject. Also the role that root.net is playing is not quit clear, questions were asked at the attention-discussion on the SDForum SearchSIG and it is not clear what their ‘end-game’ is.

The ‘users and developers partying together’ slogan was also re-introduced, brings back those ipodder-pioneering days memories

Ok, slowly i’m getting a bit more understanding, but i don’t feel i’m there yet. I’ll keep you posted…

Btw, i am just trying to grasp the subject and do not have any alterior motives

tags: Attention AttentionTrust Steve Gillmore attentiontrust xml Gesturebank

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