Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML) is an

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for documenting a person's interests and dislikes.

Overview

APML allows people to share their own personal attention profile in much the same way that

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allows the exchange of reading lists between news readers. The idea behind APML is to compress all forms of attention data into a portable file format containing a description of the user's rated interests.

The APML Workgroup

The APML Workgroup is tasked with maintaining and refining the APML specification. The APML Workgroup is made up of industry experts and leaders and was founded by Chris Saad and Ashley Angell. The workgroup allows public recommendations and input, and actively evangelises the public’s "Attention Rights". The workgroup also adheres to the principles of Media 2.0 Best Practices.

Services

''Services that have adopted APML'' *

Bloglines Bloglines was a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Users could subscribe to the syndicated feeds for free using a web browser. Bloglines offered an application programming interface that mainta ...

was an RSS reader. It was one of the major RSS readers on the web, with its main competitor being

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. Bloglines announced it would support APML. * OpenLink Data Spaces is a Distributed Collaborative Web Application Platform, Social Network and Content Management System.

Specifications

Specifications at apml.org

Example

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'' Example APML file for apml.org Written by Hand sample@apml.org 2007-03-11T01:55:00Z

References