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 …read more

Tomorrow the creators of Touchstone will announce a new initiative to implement a “Attention Profiling Mark-up Language” or APML. This new standard should allow users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows them to export their reading lists from Feed Readers. The idea is to boil down all forms of Attention Data – including Browser History, OPML, Attention.XML, Email etc – to a portable file format containing a description of ranked user interests. You might think this is a bit similar to the AttentionTrust service, but APML does not propose …read more

News Snacks (from SpotBack) organizes all your feeds in one place. We’ve seen more of these feedreaders/river of news stuff, but this one looks better. You can create your own page of favorite news, just add feeds manually, import them from OPML, or use sources from Spotback Personal News. You can choose from the pre-compiled Tasty Snacks: Web2.0, Breaking News, Gadgets, Tech News, Geek Talk.
You can also use multiple layouts, or grab other users’ setup for your homepage. Just try it out (via feedfiles.com).

Grazr, the mini OPML browser en soon-to-be publishing platform, just launched version 1.0. Last time I wrote about it it was in Beta but now they have a fresh designed website and the grazr itself has also been updated. And like Techcrunch puts it: Grazr isn’t a mini feed reader, it’s a tool for displaying dynamic information in outline form on any web page.

The last months we’ve seen myFeedz, Touchstone and Attensa trying to solve Information Overload. The keyword with these services is Attention and next in line is Wizag. Wizag is an online feedreader that incorporates attention data and semantic analysis in regards to both your feeds and the larger community of Wizag users (Digg stylee). Like Techcrunch writes: “It recommends topics, visualized points of intersection between topics and new feeds based on your interaction with the subscriptions you already have. The implementation is a little slow and it’s nothing pretty to look at, but the technology is interesting… You can tag, …read more

Next tot the standard RSS Icon we also needed a standard for OPML. Chris Pirillo has made an interesting suggestion for such a logo. Nice!

Today I got an invitation to the private beta for myFeedz.com. myFeedz should be a social newspaper and find what’s important from the sea of information out there and shows you what you need to read. It learns from what you like and helps you keep up with your interests.
I signed up and had the choice to import an OPML file or give a comma separated list of keywords in which I’m interested. Because I couldn’t find a recent OPML file of my feeds I entered some keywords like: RSS, feeds, blogs, whisky and beer. And to my surprise …read more

Didn’t have the time to write something about FeedCollectors earlier, so this news is a bit late… FeedCollectors is a new web tool that collects and socializes feeds. No matter what type of feed (blogs, podcasts, video podcasts, or news feeds), you can add it to your own collection and start sharing. FeedCollectors is like a social network based on feeds (via OPML). You can tag feeds or add friends and see what they are reading. I like the tagging, reminds me of FeedAlley where I wrote about before. But the tagging still needs a critical mass before it gets …read more

Wanna validate your RSS or OPML but don’t know where? I got some links for you;) Try validator.opml.org for your OPML files. And if you want to validate RSS you could check out feedvalidator.org, w3.org or Dave’s validator at scripting.com. That’s all folks!

Just found another feedreader which may be interesting: feeds.reddit.com. Reddit is a social service for what’s new and popular on the web (as you might know). Now they are testing this new online feedreader that keeps track of what you’ve read and haven’t read. Just like on reddit, you can vote on items you like. This will create a list of the most popular items but it will also train a recommendations system to try to find other items and other feeds that you’ll probably like as well (attention).
The guy who has build the site is Aaron Swartz, he is …read more