PubSub Sandbox

Attensa is all about attention, making the most relevant content to the top.

Marc Canter - Broadband Mechanics
Anl Dash - Six Apart
Salim Ismail - PubSub Concepts
Tantek Celik - Technorati.

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Marc Canter -

+ There are other things besides attention and tagging
+ How do I pull all things that relate to me to one place? The dashboards are the next big thing. Compound feed evolved. You would subscribe to “Marc Canter” and get only those feeds from Marc.
+ The person decides what goes into his compound feed? He thinks that this can be built upon social networks. Users can put a filter on this.

Anil Dash -

+ TypePad, Movable Type, and Livejournal.
+ How to I tell my boss what blogging is and why we need a feed in the first place.
+ What can I do with this that is practical?

Salim Ismail

+ Sructured Blogging
+ drive the next several years of Internet development
+ adding structure to information
+ tagging something is tough for machines to process
+ Feedmesh - We should share the pings
+ Designing the spec for the next step of this
+ Compete on the services that you build on top of content
+ We want to break down the walled gardens of content ownership
+ SB works well in the Feedmesh - maximum distribution.
+ Let the consumers decide what to do.
+ People get to own their own data

Marc - An abstract schema

Tantek Celik - Technorati

+ Without standards, it’s hard to share the data
+ Presentation is under the creative commons
+ Contact information - vCard - translated into hCard
+ Events - hCalendar - translated into hCalendar
+ empower users and companies to publish on their own sites.\
+ Microformats.org
+ Intellical - add ical subscriptions to outlook today.
+ Launching events feed service and contacts feed service
+ Who’s using this stuff? EVDB/Eventful, Upcoming.org, 100,000 events and venues
+ 40,000 reps have hcard
+ University of Bath - thousands of contacts
+ Syndicate your contact info publish your hcard
+ Offer your vCard to your readers, syndicate your event list with hCalendar.
+ The more we do this, the better.

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Marc

+ Syndication, XHTML, File Formats - 3 types

Anil

+ Lots of people using lots of different tools.
+ He doesn’t care about how the content is implemented as long as the publishing company does it right.
+ The interesting parts are the apps.

Marc - He can’t find a different restaurant review site. He wants to be able to get a definitive place of all reviews. Reviews are where the stuff comes down the pyramid.

Salim - Most blog posts are reviews of some sort. Ebay and Craigslist loses some of the value by owning the data.

Tantek - People aren’t going to publish intimate details on a blog post, they are looking for a level of discreteness. There will always be services that people want to be private. “Adultery is the killer app”

Anil - “Adultery is the killer app”