APML made easy by NewsGator
Attention Profiling Mark-up Language or APML is an XML-based format used for capturing the likes and dislikes of person. It is said to be a more accurate way of sharing one’s attention profile. And NewsGator is now making it easier to share one’s APML to other applications [Source]. This makes things less cumbersome.
The purpose of APML is to have a compressed compilation of all forms of Attention Data and keep into a portable file format, in other words it is a file of all your rated interests, so far. Compare to the Outline Processor Markup Language or OPML ,which is an xml format of outlines and what is used in exporting list of feeds between rss readers and aggregators.
Online RSS Reader Bloglines also support the APML format.
It seems that APML is a very effective way of easily getting information. Although it seems to be prone to abuse – we are dealing with personal information and preference, a set of very useful information. And that is why movements like DataPortability makes sure that personal data is exchanged between trusted applications and vendors. Personal data includes but is not limited to identity, photos, and videos.
NewsGator is also part of the APML Work Group, which is part of Dataportability.
