attentiontrust.org

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

AttentionTrust recorder to prove time = money

In July I wrote about the debut of AttentionTrust.org, a non-profit promoting the basic rights of attention owners. Attention is this case is related to what you do online. On Tuesday the organization will launch the AttentionTrust Recorder, a royalty-free, open sourced downloadable piece of code that keeps track of...

Tags: Seth Goldstein, Attentiontrust.org

Blog posts 2005-10-02

Additional Resources

A response to Google: Basic data rights

A response to Google: Basic data rightsMalicious Intent?I think there is an odd case of he said / she said in the air. Both Privacy International and Google stated they wanted to contact each other before the report was released. If they both wanted to contact each other why didn't...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-06-10

The Attention Gang prepares for a land grab

Fellow ZDNet blogger Denise Howell and I went to an AttentionTrust luncheon, where Michael Goldhaber decoded the concept of attention and Seth Goldstein and Steve Gillmor rolled out some AttentionTrust and GestureBank announcements. Denise covers Goldhabers talk and the Goldstein/Gillmor announcements with her usual thoroughness. Be sure to check out...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Michael Goldhaber

Blog posts 2006-10-05

Community podcast directory makes great sense

Dave Winer and a burgeoning chorus of supporters are proposing a fresh go at a community directory for podcasts. What an excellent idea. I certainly support it, and I have $100 toward the effort as well. Perhaps an associated Wiki for each podcast show or series would help listeners...

Tags: podcast

Blog posts 2006-07-20

DearAOL.com coalition tangles with Esther Dyson over Goodmail's CertifiedEmail approach to spam eradication

On Friday, Esther Dyson wrote a New York Times op-ed piece, “You've Got Goodmail,” in which she advocated for Goodmail Systems’ freedom to pursue a 'certified' approach to dealing with the problem of spam and fraud on the Internet. She wrote:What Goodmail is proposing is a sort of FedEx...

Tags: Goodmail

Blog posts 2006-03-20

PC Forum: Shifting the balance of data power

Users gaining control of their data and online identities was the theme of the morning panel at PC Forum. It's in part a struggle for power, or a shift in the balance of power between institutions, like credit bureaus and commerce site, and individual users. An age old power stuggle...

Tags: Seth Goldstein, use.Scott Mitic

Blog posts 2006-03-13

The amorphous attention economy

The theme of this week’s ETech conference is the “attention economy,” which can be an immediate turnoff. I am tired of everything on the Web linked to economies and ecologies, as if it lends some academic, multidisciplinary legitimacy to discussions about how money is made on the Web. How about...

Tags: attention economy, Dave Sifry

Blog posts 2006-03-08

Steve Gillmor: God incarnate?

Steve Gillmor: God incarnate?Is this the same Steve Gillmorthat runs this: http://www.attentiontrust.org/about#boardwhere, when registering, I was told my site would be evaluated? What a crock! God in his own world maybe, so much for http://del.icio.us/BillyG/TransparencyYou gotta be kiddingWhat was the purpose of this blog? To convince us to read Steve's...

Tags: Blogging, God, Steve Gillmor, smoke, blog

Discussion threads 2006-02-16

Should Google and other online sites share some of the gold with users?

I just read Dan Farber's Syndicate conference blog and his write-up of the AttentionTrust.org compensation ideas that the "Steve Gillmor gang" are busily promoting. Here is Seth Goldstein, one of the Attention Trust gang, quoted by Dan: "People have to feel they own equity in the entities that...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2005-12-20

Getting a piece of the action: The attention economy

The AttentionTrust gang, led by Steve Gillmor, Seth Goldstein and Ed Batista, held court during a session at the Syndicate conference. Most interesting were Seth Goldstein's comments about attention deficit--the notion that users aren't compensated for their attention online, which generates money for the host sites, e.g. Yahoo, Google, MSN,...

Tags: Seth Goldstein

Blog posts 2005-12-19

Syndication, Wikipedia, Java DB and more...

This latest episode of the Dan & David Show comes to you from The Syndicate conference in San Francisco, where David and I camped out in the demo area for the podcast. We give our rundown on the event, which focused on trends in RSS/syndication, content delivery, blogging, podcasting/tagging, marketing...

Tags: podcast

Blog posts 2005-12-15

Attention.opml or Attention.rss?

Alex Barnett has an interesting post suggesting that OPML is a great format for attention data. OPML is already supported by every RSS aggregator, so it seems a natural format for storing feed-specific attention information. Of course, whenever the topic of an attention format is...

Tags: OPML

Blog posts 2005-11-08

Links are dead, Doc

Good grief. My friend Doc Searls has reacted big time to my suggestion that links are dead. OK, I was going to sugercoat it but if you insist....Doc, last in first out. Links have leverage, attention doesn't? Well, every singloe new search play leverages attention characteristics-- Sphere, Memorandum, Attensa, Google...

Tags: RSS, Doc, attention.XML

Blog posts 2005-10-17

The portal wars 2.0

In the bubble days of the Web, the game was all about aggregating eyeballs. AOL, Excite, Yahoo, Snap!, Lycos, Netscape, MSN and a few others tried to carve out virtual territory in the first Internet eyeball rush. The first Web portals focused on search and content aggregation, adding e-mail, instant...

Tags: Portals, Web technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., portal, Sergey Brin, America Online Inc., blog

Blog posts 2005-10-10

Farber on the Attention Recorder

Thanks to Dan Farber for listening and pointing to the Sirius cast of our conversation with Seth Goldstein of AttentionTrust.org. It's the second of 4 AttentionTech casts that are currently stored somewhat secretly at the URL Dan published. You can guess what the others are, the third being with Robert...

Tags: Attention, Attention Recorder

Blog posts 2005-10-03

Not kidding

Not kiddingThe last interfaceThe interface of the human mind! How to maximize the streaming of data into that "site"? As with computers, speed and size are the constraints on the data flow. Additionally the data flow UPTIME is a contraint. This is where the "attention" factor comes from. Switching data...

Tags: attention economy, data flow

Discussion threads 2005-07-29

Not kidding

In the car on the way to school (pre-K camp) this morning, my 4.5 year old Ella asked me what "serious" meant. I asked her what the context was. She haltingly indicated that it was something someone on the DVD player was saying; i.e. I'm serious. I asked her what...

Tags: Seth

Blog posts 2005-07-29

What's AttentionTrust.org all about?

What's AttentionTrust.org all about?Not sure we need a .org for attention dataOur company will likely support this effort as it gains momentum and its objectives become clearer. Right now it's not terribly clear to me. We have bet our company Attensa on attention data - or attention streams as we...

Tags: Wiki, Right Now IT, attention data, password

Discussion threads 2005-07-28

What's AttentionTrust.org all about?

The commodities in short supply for anyone who has moved fully into the digital world are time and attention. So much data, interaction and transaction, so little time and filtering. We have the benefit of instant access to information of all kinds and billions of conversations, but primitive ways to...

Tags: Blogging, Seth Goldstein

Blog posts 2005-07-28