The attention list

A list of people, companies, organizations, and associations paying attention to attention:

ORGANIZATIONS

APML.org advocates an APML language that help users share their own Attention Profile
Attention Trust
DataPortablility.org
Omidyar Network funded Attention Trust in 2006

PEOPLE

Paul Martino of Aggregate Knowledge gave a presentation on attention at ETech in 2006
Herbert Simon wrote Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World
Chris Saad is co-founder of the APML.org and DataPortability.org
Georg Franck wrote The Economy of Attention in
Michael Goldhaber wrote Attention Ecomony and the Net in 1997
Richard Lanham wrote The Economics of Attention in 2006
Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck’s wrote The Attention Economy in 2001
Seth Goldstein
Noah Brier
Steve Gillmor co-created attention.xml, co-founded Attention Trust, blogs at NewsGang and GestureLab
Doc Searls wrote about the Intention Economy in 2006
Ed Batista, Executive Director of the Attention Trust
Michel Bauwens
Fred Wilson wrote about Spying on Myself
Herbert Simon
Joshua Schachter founded del.icio.us and called tags “crystallized attention“
Richard MacManus

COMPANIES

Faraday Media (APML, engagd, syncstream, particls)
Root Markets
Attensa
ActiveWeave makes BlogRovR, a plug-in that shows you posts for every page you are on
Orchestr8 makes Alchemy Point a rec engine that uses the semantic web, similar to Adaptive Blue
GestureBank is built by Steve Gillmor atop the Attention Recorder
Touchstone (now particls) builds a profile and filters all incoming info
GestureLab
Last.fm builds an implicit user profile based on attention
Qlockwork tracks every move in windows apps (defunct?)
eSnips (484K uniques in 1/09)
Adaptive Blue’s Glue (110K uniques in 1/09)

ATTENTION RECORDERS (CROSS-SITE)

SOCIAL BROWSING

Cluztr is browser add-on that allows a user to share clickstreams (1K uniques in 12/08)
Browzmi helps friends ‘surf the web together’ (4K uniques in 12/08)
Me.dium relaunched as social search as OneRiot (48K uniques in 12/08)
Yoono recommends sites and users related to the site you are browsing (110K uniques in 12/08)
Timelope (defunct)
Hooeey is closer to a web recorder ala Google Web History (1K uniques in 12/08)
Kiobo allows you “to see where friends are browsing” (Unavailable uniques in 12/08)
MyBlogLog (now Yahoo!) aggregates communities of visitors around blogs
SlingPage is more enhanced web sharing, ala Flock (86K uniques in 12/08)
Stikis (acquired modestly by BuzzLogic) allows users to post shared notes on web pages