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/