Attention Trust

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Attention Trust is a unique Lifestyle Blog offering news, entertainment, and informative articles to millions of people around the world. The blog features Top List style articles that cover all the niches.

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Jul 29, 2007	Towards the Attention Economy: Will Attention Silos Ever Open Up?	We have written extensively at Read/WriteWeb about Attention and the Attention Economy. As a concept attention makes sense to anyone who is online today. We know when we are paying attention and we know what we are paying attention to. The ...
Jun 12, 2007	The Implicit Web: Last.fm, Amazon, Google, Attention Trust	As we rush through life and a myriad of web pages, we leave traces. We don’t have time to think deeply about any of this. The blogs that we visit, the music we listen to, the movies we watch; we take all of them for granted. Yet, all of the...
May 24, 2007	Vendor Relationship Management	Last week, I attended the Internet Identity Workshop. Doc Searls, one of the organizers of the conference, ran multiple sessions on a concept he has been developing with others in his role as a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, called Ven...
Apr 10, 2007	Delicious Joins The MyWare Camp	Longtime readers of this blog know how much I love to spy on myself. I use last.fm to record all of my music listens and I showcase them on this blog. I use the attentiontrust firefox extension to record my clickstream and search history an...
Mar 13, 2007	Open Data Workshop 2007	The Open Data Workshop 2007 took place yesterday in New York City. The gathering was organized by AttentionTrust and sponsored by Reuters. The workshop brought together over sixty influencers from startups, web giants, financial firms, vent...
Mar 1, 2007	The Attention Economy: An Overview	Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus It is no secret that we live in an information overload age. The explosion of new types of information online is a double-edged sword. We both enjoy and drown in news, blogs, podcasts, p...
Nov 10, 2006	We Live In Public	Are you ready??? Originally uploaded by ssh. Back in the last Internet bubble, Josh Harris created an experimental art project he called We Live In Public. To quote from the link I just gave you: We Live In Public is an experiment created b...
Oct 19, 2006	MyBlogLog: Readers Network Around Their Favorite Blogs	MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs – and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers. Founded in March of 2005, the site rela...
Oct 17, 2006	Firefox 2.0 About to Ship – Here's What's Happening	Mozilla offered up Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 3 tonight, bringing the official launch of version 2.0 all the closer. Most TechCrunch readers have probably tried previous release candidates but there are a number of things readers may be ...
Oct 9, 2006	Ten Things I Wish IE 7 Was About to Deliver	Contrary to some reports, Internet Explorer 7 will probably not roll out automatically to Windows users in tomorrow’s Patch Tuesday update; it will come out some time after Thursday according to indications from the IE 7 team blog. One way ...
Sep 15, 2006	Chicago Board of Trade invests in Attention futures service ROOT	Entrepreneur Seth Goldstein announced today that his company ROOT has received $1 million in funding from the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), a futures exchange founded in 1848. Bernard W. Dan, CEO of the Chicago Board of Trade, will join th...
Aug 22, 2006	Opt In or Out?	The New York Times had an editorial piece yesterday on the stored search query debate. To quote from the Times’ opinion piece, Whatever the government does, the companies themselves should be acting more responsibly. People who use the Inte...
Jan 8, 2006	Spying On Myself	It seems kind of like an odd concept. Why would anyone need to spy on themselves? Well I can think of a bunch of reasons when it comes to digital media. But first, a little historical context. We’ve all had that terrible experience with spy...
Dec 13, 2005	Alexa - Amazon's Hidden Jewel	I’ve been meaning to blog about Alexa for months. As I have been tracking my clickstream with the AttentionTrust Firefox extension, I have come to realize that I use Alexa about as much as I use Google. And as I thought about it, I realized...
Nov 25, 2005	Root.Net's "Lead" Market	I’m intruiged by Seth Goldstein’s Root.net, the first commercial application of the Attention Trust platform (see my Attention Trust posts here and here). Seth wrote a lengthy and descriptive post outlining the service for all participants ...
Oct 5, 2005	More Details on Attention Trust	I’m sitting in the Attention Trust public board meeting at the Web 2.0 conference and getting more details on their announcements discussed below. Everything is centered around the Attention Trust Recorder Firefox extension (they’re calling...
Oct 5, 2005	Attention Trust Recorder	AttentionTrust (profile) announced a number of updates to its service today. The underlying philosophy of this nonprofit corporation is described in Seth GoldStein and Greg Yardley’s post on the Attention Trust blog. In addition to a new lo...
Oct 2, 2005	Web 2.0 This Week (Sept 25 – Oct 1)	Web 2.0 This Week September 25 – October 1 The excitement is building over this week’s upcoming Web 2.0 Conference (October 5-7) in San Francisco. The event is sold out. It’s clear that a number of companies intend to launch this week, and ...
Sep 3, 2005	Findory is your Personalized Newspaper	Company: Findory Launched: January 2004 Location: Seattle, WA I’ve recently become interested in companies that exploit the actions and attention of users to provide personalized content recommendations. We wrote about Attensa’s efforts in ...
Aug 29, 2005	Attensa – The Smart RSS Reader	Company: Attensa Launched: June 2005 Employees: 8 Status: Funded by SmartForest Ventures and 2nd Avenue Partners Location: Portland, OR Overview Attensa is a world class RSS reader that is attacking the multi-platform syncronization problem...
Aug 8, 2005	Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 1-7 August 2005	sponsored by: Onfolio is offering R/WW readers a coupon code entitling the bearer to $30 off a purchase of Onfolio Professional before August 31st (a 30% saving off the normal $99.95 price). To use the coupon, enter it at the time of purcha...
Aug 6, 2005	Update – AttentionTrust	AttentionTrust (TechCrunch Profile) has started to approve websites, and Steve was nice enough to send our’s today. Your application for the AttentionTrust has been accepted. Your name will now appear on the list of supporters on www.attent...
Aug 1, 2005	Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 25-31 July 2005	sponsored by: Onfolio is offering R/WW readers a coupon code entitling the bearer to $30 off a purchase of Onfolio Professional before August 31st. Coupon Code: RM857202 This week: Walled Gardens, Ajax backlash, Widgetmania, Asia update, Th...
Jul 30, 2005	Web 2.0 This Week (July 24 – 30)	It’s been a fun-filled Web 2.0 week, capped off with BlogHerCon today. Good stuff below. 1. BlogHer Conference on Saturday, July 30, 2005 The BlogHer Conference ’05 is today, at Techmart in Santa Clara. “This flagship event is open to all b...
Jul 26, 2005	Points of Presence	– Google does RSS… sort of (you can now add RSS feeds to your Personalized page by clicking ‘Create a Section’. It’s made with cool Ajax, but this is no RSS Aggregator folks… come on Google, you can do much better!)– Attention Trust is a pr...
Jul 23, 2005	Profile – AttentionTrust	Update: For an excellent writeup of Attention Trust, see Seth Goldstein’s essay here. Company: AttentionTrust Launched: Today (I believe) What is it? Attention Trust is a project led by Steve Gillmor and others that is the next evolution of...

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What has the press written about Attention Trust?

Parsers VC has collected 27 articles mentioning Attention Trust, among them “Towards the Attention Economy: Will Attention Silos Ever Open Up?” (Jul 29, 2007) and “The Implicit Web: Last.fm, Amazon, Google, Attention Trust” (Jun 12, 2007).

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Yes, Attention Trust is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 8, 2009.