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About The Open Gardens Blog

I (Ajit) founded the blog on May 26, 2005 based on my vision and philosophy of OpenGardens i.e. the philosophical opposite of 'walled gardens' especially as applicable to the mobile data industry.

Today, the OpenGardens blog is one of the few blogs that span both the Web and the Mobile domains.

The blog covers wireless/mobile applications, open networks and mobile web 2.0. My vision behind the OpenGardens blog has been :

The blog is about the Mobile data industry and Digital convergence('Mobile web 2.0')
Analysis is more important than story/controversy. I don't believe that bloggers are true journalists. The blog is not about the latest 'story' but it's more about independent analysis/viewpoint
The OpenGardens blog is broadly about opening up the networks, growing digital usage and digital businesses i.e. we don't advocate closed networks, broadcast media etc
It is about disruptive digital technologies

Founder & Chief Blogger Ajit Jaokar

Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext (www.futuretext.com) focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies -including Web 2.0 and Mobile Web 2.0.

His thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog, the OpenGardensBlog (www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com), which was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide

In 2009-2010, Ajit was nominated as part of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet by the world economic forum. He hopes to use this opportunity to further extend the pragmatic viewpoint of the evolution of Telecoms networks in an open ecosystem.

(Note: The Network of Global Agenda Councils plays a significant role in shaping the global agenda by monitoring global issues and elaborating recommendations to address them. Each Council, comprised of 15-20 Members, serves as an advisory board to the Forum and other interested parties, such as governments and international organizations. The Global Agenda Councils also act as the intellectual drivers of the World Economic Forum's Global Redesign Initiative, an unprecedented international, multistakeholder and multimedia dialogue that aims to develop a 21st-century vision of global cooperation. Members of the G20, the UN and other International Organizations have pledged their support for this initiative. )

Ajit is best known for his books Mobile Web 2.0, Social Media Marketing. Two new books ('Open Mobile' and 'Implementing Mobile Web 2.0') are being released in 2009.

His consulting activities include working with companies to define value propositions across the device, network, Web and Social networking stack spanning both technology and strategy. He has worked with a range of commercial and government organizations globally including The European Union, Telecoms Operators, Device manufacturers, social networking companies and security companies in various strategic and visionary roles

His recent talks and forthcoming talks include: CEBIT 2009;MobileWorld Congress(2007, 2008, 2009); Keynote at O Reilly Web20 expo (April 2007);Keynote at Java One; European Parliament – Brussels – (Electronic Internet Foundation); Stanford University's Digital visions program;MIT Sloan;Fraunhofer FOKUS ; University of St. Gallen (Switzerland); Mobile Web Strategies (partner event of CTIA in San Francisco)

Media appearances include BBC – Newsnight – 3phone launch; CNN money; BBC digital planet

Ajit chairs Oxford University's Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0, Social networking, Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University.

Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is currently doing a PhD on Privacy and Reputation systems at UCL in London. Ajit is a fan of animation especially Tom and Jerry, Tintin and Asterix and likes the music of ZZ Top and other rock bands

You can contact me at ajit.jaokar at futuretext.com

You can follow me on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/AjitJaokar

See a video of my talk at CEBIT in Hannover
(intro in german - presenttion in english)

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September 14, 2008

(Variant of ) APML for mobile devices ..

A very late night blog on a sat evening .. but still I think this significant ..

I have been following APML for some time ..

More than APML itself, what is intriguing is a variant of APML at a BBC site which is inspired by an article from Matt Biddulph

As the above article says:

APML allows you to share your own attention data. That’s data about what you have given your attention to; whether by browsing websites, reading RSS feeds or listening to music. You could then take your attention data profile and pass it to another website which would then be able to automatically customise itself to your preferences or interests. That seems to be its conventional use-case.

But a variant is

What if you could generate APML for a music radio show? That would be based on the music that the show or DJ has played and, by extension, has been paying attention to.

I find the variant more interesting than the actual use case of APML

Extending this idea .. what if the variant is a mobile device instead of a radio show?

Then it gets very interesting indeed i.e. the attention stream of data generated from a mobile device

Thoughts welcome

So more links below

http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2008/8/29/apml

http://mashable.com/2007/10/22/apml/

http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2007/10/thoughts-on-tom-morris-on-apml/

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APML sadly is a fail case as the actual format for storin g attention does not do what it says on the tin. It does not store your attention. Instead look at the work of Tantek Celik and attention.xml
I too have looked closely at APML for sometime and the data capture does not deliver what you would need to extract a users attention based on their prior behaviour.
As for APML on mobile. I would go back to the idea that attention across devices pc, mobile, car, tv ( 4 screens of life) needs to be captured and stored by a user. It then needs to be used/traded with 3rd parties for value. i.e new services can tailor there features or advertisers can be more implicit in their offer.

Comment by Sam Sethi — September 14, 2008 @ 10:41 am

I find your talk of a ‘variant’ confusing. It is still APML, even if it’s not for a human. An APML file for a mobile phone would have multiple profiles containing different data types such as phone numbers or locations.

Comment by Dan W — September 14, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

Dan
Thanks for your comments.
I posted this late into the night. What I meant was variant as a use case i.e. a non traditional use case(see BBC article). I saw the last.fm model and was wondering why not replace the last.fm by a mobile device? Do you know anyone else who is exploring this model? kind rgds Ajit

Comment by Ajit Jaokar — September 14, 2008 @ 1:50 pm

thanks Sam. Good to hear from you. I agree also with significance of attention.xml although I am not sure if APML is a fail case(I need to read a bit more into this). I am more intereted in ‘non human’ usecase like last.fm because I think that does have some merit – rather than humans explicitly doing this. A phone has all the elements to act analogous to the last.fm use case(see link above). what do you think? rgds Ajit

Comment by Ajit Jaokar — September 14, 2008 @ 2:27 pm

Hi Ajit,
Opentaste is worth a look: it’s based on OAuth, OpenID, APML and microformats; in their own words
“OpenTaste is focused on the semantics of taste information needed to make personalized recommendations.”
And as the name would suggest, it’s open
http://www.opentaste.net/overview.html
http://www.opentaste.net/technical.html
Best,
Kevin

Comment by Kevin Smith — September 17, 2008 @ 10:11 am