Two Articles on Attention Profiling
I suggest reading the posts in the same order I did: First, start with a description of how Attention Profiling can be used for music recommendation engines. Then, read a very thorough overview of the technology.
I’m really liking the idea of the Attention Profile: a document which describes your likes and dislikes to share with web services. In the world of online politics, entries into my APML file could be:
- I’m a Democrat.
- I’m a Howard Dean Democrat.
- The three blogs I read religiously are Daily Kos, MyDD, and Political Wire.
- I’m leaning slightly towards Obama right now.
- I follow the wacky world of Ron Paul, but I would never vote for him.
Imagine if I could share my APML file with Google. Google Ads could serve me more relevant ads. Google Reader could do a better job of suggesting to me feeds that I have yet to discover.
If I shared my APML file with Facebook, I could be served suggestions for friends, groups to join, events to attend, and candidates to link to.
