TAG: attention
The Social Graph In The Second Inning
"What I want is a single aggregated social graph that I control that has all of this data in it. That "meta social graph" can then be applied by ME to the interface I want on top off all my messaging systems."
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"Beacon is the internal project name at Facebook around an effort to work with third parties and gain access to very specific user data. An example may be a purchase of a book or DVD from Amazon."
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Consuming Less While Getting More
"The annual report found that for the first time since 1997, the average American’s media intake dropped in 2006. The 0.5 percent decline is not statistically significant, but does conform with longtime trends that show a flattening in media consumption
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Benjamin Palmer talks at Cannes
"Now, the competition is not another ad, it’s everything. You’re five minute experience has to be better than anything else someone could be doing with their life."
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Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Traffic
Stowe Boyd on a new kind of consciousness.
Attention is a function of the medium
"As bloggers we may have committed a grave strategic error - if we spun our points out to 200 pages with the customary filler, photos and charts not only could we sell them at £10 a copy but people would apparently commit hours of their lives to reading
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"The perceived importance and value of entries to readers is inversely proportional to the frequency of entries on any given day."
the end of accidental networks
"One of the things that the internet extinguished was the need for accidental sociality, for post-kinship connections that depend on spatial or institutional proximity."
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The Great Media Industry Schism
"Newspapers embody the old media world where content creation, aggregation, and distribution were inextricably linked. But the digital media revolution has made it possible to separate these functions."
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Narcissism and Fame Are a Little Too Easy
"The act of conveying information to others is in itself a very pleasant experience for most people . . . Sharing gives you a buzz, especially when that sharing is acknowledged directly."
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As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.
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I Know What You're (Collectively) Thinking, Planning
"How long before the collective search terms of a company can be used to sufficiently predict the products and services they next bring to market?"
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"Recommendations are based on your search history, ratings and viewing patterns. We filter out the videos you mark as "not interested" as well as videos you have recently watched."
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ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens)
"While adult bloggers talk about building an identity through extended blogging, i keep finding teens who got locked out of Xanga and responded by making another Xanga (or a Blogger or a LiveJournal)."
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"Enough about jargon, the explicit implicit web is all about the value that will accrue to an Internet user when their every action is tracked, recorded, and used to provide value back to that user."
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"A consultancy called the Attention Company has just complete a fascinating survey of what it calls "Out There" people---think Mark Cuban and other promoters of radical transparency."
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"It's a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socializing, not in making money, and, besides, the economic value of each of their individual contributions is trivial."
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"But now “Attention is Media� is about attention streams as content. Those could be individual attention streams or group attention streams or social network attentions streams. See what I mean?"
Bidding for time and attention
"Sponsoring the individual consumer, regardless of the media he or she consumes, provides one smart path forward."
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Ten Trends Transforming Marketing Measurements
"In digital networks, people often passively emit both anonymous and identifiable gestures, whether it’s visiting a Web site, programming a TiVo, commenting in a public discussion forum or a host of other activities."
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The Reccomendation Market: Consumers must get some value
"The value that the consumer--the actual creator of this value--gets is...better recommendations . . . I think a company could go extremely far by shuffling some of that value back to the consumer."
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Wallstrip Interview: Seth Goldstein
"Lindsay sits down with Seth Goldstein, one of the internet’s foremost thinkers on the concept of 'attention'"
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"Intention means you want something, a state of the universe that doesn’t yet exist, and that you are willing to act to create it. In constrast, Attention simply means you are observing something."
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Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities
"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."
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Are Engagement Believers In Denial?
"Where do we start? I’d like to propose six new dimensions that advertisers need to inject into this engagement discussion right away"
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"The following is a write up of my notes I prepared for an appearance on the BBC World Service show Culture Shock about the state of privacy."
And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely
Netflix is offering $1 million prize for improving their collaborative filtering by at least 10 percent.
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secrets (Or why a bunch of kids just might save the 21 century by making it easier to cheat)
"I should have access to all my information, and be able to decided who can use it. If I don’t want Turnitin.com profiting off of my work for the greater good of stopping plagiarism, I should have that right."
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BuzzLogic calculates social media influence
"BuzzLogic looks at content relevance, using full text analysis; the number of messages from a certain publisher over time; traffic, including users referred by influencers and total number of pages views . . ."
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Judging your friends by their Netflix lists
Netflix "has taught us to think of our rental historyâ€â€all these discrete occasions of media ingestion scattered over the weeks and yearsâ€â€as a single, continuous, cohesive experience."
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Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World)
"What makes Paris brilliant is that she used the attention she had and gave it to others thereby garning more attention for herself. And it’s been profitable."
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A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change
"A lot of the information that newspaper organizations collect is relentlessly structured. It just takes somebody to realize the structure (the easy part), and it just takes somebody to start storing it in a structured format (the hard part)."
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Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama
Danah Boyd's analysis of the Facebook news feed fiasco.
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Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds
A man posted on Craig's List looking for sex then posted the emails (including photos) that he got.
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"That leaves 19%. This is the golden segment. If you can figure out how to engage these folks, you win. "
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"I have a dream of talking directly to a business and sharing my personal data; where I am valued for this and rewarded with tailored/customized services that design out assumptions and waste. And they are rewarded with my attention."
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Pulling Your Own Strings (Or Fred Wilson's Idea To Destroy YouTube)
"I have said before, and will say it again. The problem with monetizing Web 2.0 enterprises is not a business model problem. It’s a lack of forward thinking advertising agencies and advertisers."
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The Marketing Times Are A-Changin' [PDF]
"The marketplace of old resembled a mass of caterpillars hanging around the tree of traditional media, venturing down the branches of mass distribution, and consuming the offshoots of brand advertisers."
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Lonelygirl15 : A Message From the Creators
"We hope that you will join us in the continuing story of Lonelygirl15, and help us usher in an era of interactive storytelling where the line between "fan" and "star" has been removed, and dedicated fans like yourselves are paid for their efforts."
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"It's no accident that the rise of blogging coincides with the rise of government surveillance online. The people are watching too."
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"Why wouldn’t Google (or Yahoo, or any other company with a large enough stream of user intentions - toolbar and spyware companies, even) open a side business as a hedge fund or just use the information to secure a superior return on investment?"
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Facets of Facets, Tagclouds And Trust
"As we develop a literacy for tagclouds, they let us peek inside a person’s mind. We get more out of these clouds than just an idea of a person’s reading- and classifying habits. Tagclouds are inspiring. They contain hints."
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"In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors."
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All the news that's fit for bits
Martin Nisenholtz is presiding over a surge in digital revenue at the old gray lady.
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"If I'm right that the defining advantage of insiders is an audience, then we live in exciting times, because just in the last ten years the Internet has made audiences a lot more liquid."
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Great, Now They'll Never Give Us Data
"In practice we’re nowhere near understanding how to usefully depersonalize this kind of data. That’s an important research problem in itself, which needs its own datasets to work on."
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"I would like to find a suitable, general. short pair of words for (a) a person paying attention to (b) a person receiving attention. I have often used the words “fan� and “star� to mean something a bit similar, but not the same."
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A New Way of Tracking Users' Browsing Habits
"Jeremiah Grossman came up with a really clever way of using Javascript to find what pages you've visited recently."
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10 things you should be monitoring
"In order to manage your reputation you need to track the right things, so here's a list of 10 things that you absolutely need to be monitoring."
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Thought Fashion: Are You In or Out?
"is your digital identity your personal intellectual property?. . . And by extension, is your clickstream a personal expression (carefully chosen and shaped by you)? In other words, can you copyright your clickstream and exert ownership?"
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Interface Culture 10 Years Later Notes
"Interface ecosystems. It's now easy to think of the world in terms as modules. Don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. You deal with this problem, I'll deal with that one. Easier to stitch together innovations."
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"Money and power are handy, but millions of ambitious people are after something other than the corner office or the beach house on St. Bart’s."
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The invisible hand on the keyboard
Why do economists spend valuable time blogging?
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Are Advertisers Suffering From Addiction?
"If we are headed to a world where consumer attention becomes far less attainable with paid media, then where does that take us? I believe it means we’re approaching an age where real competitive differentiation becomes a better overall brand experience
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Motivation for online behavior
"I’m not fully convinced yet, but I’m increasingly thinking that successful social software is nothing more than an online Skinner box. Positional, status-conveying goods. . . entice people to contribute their valuable content for free."
Tags: psychology culture attention community media2.0
"You treat those core users to your site, those who make comments, those who send suggestions, those who drop you an email to say you suck, like they are freaking gods."
Tags: attention media2.0 connectedness
Search the entire AOL data dump. "This includes over 20 million search queries from 658,000 of AOL's users. Apparently 658,000 AOL users are estimated to be around 1.5% of the total Google search population."
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"Last week, AOL revealed three months' worth of people's web searches -- and the data is oddly fascinating."
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The Big Difference Between Old And New
"Old media is begging for attention. New media is attention."
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"When I'm deciding what links to post here, I'm essentially curating ideas, collecting them to "send" to you (and to myself, in a way). And unconsciously, these seven points factor into my decision on what to post here."
Lawyers, Priests, and AOL's Data Release
"Here’s the bottom line: what’s inside our minds is no longer private (or a lot less private). Nothing we do on the Internet is private. And there is a not insignificant risk that if we don’t come to terms with this as a society."
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Marketing In An Attention Economy
Max sums up John Hagel. The new collaboration marketing is about the three a's: Attract, assist, affiliate.
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number games and social software
"Who is motivated by what number games? Who is demotivated? Does it make a difference if the number game is about the group vs. the individual, about one's self directly vs. about some abstract capability?"
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Lily Allen, Britainâ s New Pop Star, Has Cheek, and Bite, to Spare
"She symbolizes a new blogging-age, middle-class girl: cockily ambitious, skeptical yet enthusiastic, technically savvy, musically open, obsessed with public expression and ready to fight back."
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Attention is Fluid and, in Its Way, Quite Fungible
"This is a partial look at the ways Person A can pay attention to Person B."
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"You really should be paying your users for the value they create, but if that value is still an acquisition or advertiser base down the road, keep in mind that for many, being cool or prominent trumps being paid"
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"The idea that authority is best transmitted by a coarse-grained gesture like linking is bankrupted by the sheer volume of gaming that is emerging."
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Scoble on gestures and not linking.
"Smart companies are thinking about how to exploit all the power of all these individuals to sell shit. Smarter companies are being set up to bridge that gap between individuals and the companies that need them."
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"Ozzie has made it clear that Microsoft is thinking extensively about 1) the value and utility of attention data, 2) the fundamental role it will play in a web services world, and 3) the importance of user control."
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"Trust dilemmas seem to play an integral part in attention economies. When deciding how we should direct our attention, we are essentially faced with a continuous stream of trust dilemmas."
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MySpace's Business Model Conundrum
What happens when MySpace users capitalize on the attention they're getting and convert themselves into branding/advertising opportunities?
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"There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money; That's just not why most people use communication tools."
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"I’m Internet famous. It’s a rough life I live, but I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. And if you actually believe all this shit then you must be Internet famous like me."
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THE WAR FOR ATTENTION: SUMMER 2006
"The gestures of our lives are recorded, and we become represented – on “Top 100� lists, blogrolls and Flickr badges of different sizes. And the narratives of our electronic Attention gestures have even crossed back into offline mass media."
Apple Computer Nike + iPod Sport Kit
A very close look at how the Nike + iPod works.
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On the Fimoculous redesign: "Although it might look like I've merely thrown a bunch of widgets on the page, it's actually intended to signal a notion that I've lately been bouncing off people: the future of blogging is self-aggregation."
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"Ray builds software that allows lawyers to monitor what they pay attention to so that they can bill clients accurately."
A look at 'prosumerism' (aka co-creation aka brand democratization) and its effects on design.
"New technologies are disrupting and inverting these economics, by making attention the scarcest resource in the value chain."
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Trusted filters, trusted protectors, trusted concierge, human or technical, removing distractions and managing boundaries, filtering signal from noise, enabling meaningful connections, that make us feel secure, are the opportunity for the next generation.
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"The Cognitive economy revolves around memory, attention, perception, action, problem solving. It will be the businesses, organizations, services and people that build value around those key components that will be sucessful in the long term."
Tags: attention media2.0 economics
Which products, used by few today, will be essential in five years?
A great look at the year 2011.
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Google's tv eavesdropping plan
"By using its microphone to listen in and then connecting to an online database it could identify the show, and how far through you are."
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"The plenitude of information, not its scarcity, defines the world we live in now. And journalism must change to accommodate that fact."
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Attention Scarcity and its Effect on Marketing
"Marketing was formerly based on ... Intercept, isolate, inhibit ... it should be based on the three A's: attract, assist (develop understandingn of context both pre and post purchase); affiliate (mobilize people to help deliver value)"
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Metadata is (Still) Democratic
'[Attention data] is the easiest--and most democratic--form of expression."
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"Swarm is a graphical map of hundreds of websites, all connecting to each other. It updates itself every second with where people are going and coming from."
Apple teams up with Nike to help people track their running. You put a little thing in your shoe and connect another to your iPod and it tracks distance, speed and all that good stuff. When you're done running it downloads automatically.
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An interview with Esther Dyson.
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"In a world of attention scarcity, we will not continue to receive attention unless we earn that right. If we do not receive attention, we risk becoming progressively marginalized."
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Esther Dyson on the Evolution of Marketing, and Attention vs. Intention
"People go on the Web in search of attention; they don't want to give it as much as get it."
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What If No One Will Pay For Content?
"In media 1.0, brands paid for the attention that media companies gathered by offering people news and entertainment in exchange for their attention. In media 2.0, people are more likely to give their attention in exchange for OTHER PEOPLE’S ATTENTION."
"You can't keep up. There is no way. And trying to keep up will probably just make you dumber.You can never be current on everything you think you should be."
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"Audience relationship businesses take these proliferating content options as an opportunity, rather than a challenge. The more options there are, the more value that can be created by organizing, packaging, presenting and adding to these options for spe
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Why can't you pay attention anymore?
All of that data flying at you by e-mail, instant message, cell phone, voice mail and BlackBerry--it could actually be making you dumber.
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attentionomics testing and urban spam
On bar postcards: "They sit, modestly at the edge of our attention-field and they'll only 'succeed' if they're sufficiently engaging, interesting or useful for us to want to march over and look at them, read them or ideally, use them."
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"The ROOT Vaults currently exposes a very simple API for getting out the same clickstream data that users deposit. The API is a RESTful one that takes parameters in the HTTP Query String and returns XML."
Video from Seth Goldstein's presentation on Attention at Etech.
"A new service allows you to track your every web move -- but how private is it really?"
"Is "The Attention Economy" just another way for advertisers to skewer eyeballs? And why build an economy around Attention, when Intention is where the money comes from?"
"All week I've been attending a conference about the "Attention Economy," but I am still not entirely sure what that term is supposed to mean."
Some negative feedback from Umair Haque on Etech.
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Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers
"Everyone becomes a programmer without even trying, and that programming can be socialized, shared, distributed, etc."
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"What Google wants to do with these trailers is SERVE EVERY TV COMMERCIAL ON THE PLANET because only they will be able to do it efficiently."
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Everything Counts (in large amounts)
In this essay we will look at some of the ways that ideas about architecture are affected by electronic communication and the culture that surrounds it.
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The Most Important Statistic of them All
"So, what is the “personal killer app� that Karp is looking for? It’s recommendation systems, just like Netflix. They’re out modeling where YOU pay attention, what media YOU want, not the media THEY try to sell you."
Web economics 2.0 and paying with data instead of dollars
"People understand that someone has to get paid to develop apps or write articles, and if we can pay with something other than money, that’s great!"
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Bubble 2.0 Is a Bubble in Media
"There’s a bubble because the tech industry is trying to be the new media industry, and very few people in the tech industry understand what’s really happening to the economics of media."
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Attention, Media, Value and Economics
"Building on the debate about the "attention economy" initiated by Michael Goldhaber and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, I introduce the notion of valuing process, i.e. the process by which potential value can be translated in an economy."
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The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net
Michael Goldhaber's speech about the relationship between the new attention economy and the internet.
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Report from /Vaultstock!: Access is Everything
Seth Goldstein gives his /Vaultstock wrap up with some interesting thoughts and quotes about attention.
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Erick Schonfeld from Business 2.0 writes about AttentionTrust and /VAULTSTOCK
Shopper's eye view of ads that pass us by
"Only by getting to know consumers better can advertisers cut through the clutter, he believes. "We really need to go back to basics to understand that people don't want 3,500 media messages every day. You probably only want three that are relevant to you
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Gary Stein: "I think Root is an interesting experiment: will players (especially consumers) be interested in participating in this sort of market place? We'll have to wait and see."
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Attention, Buying a Car, and Control
Joshua Porter puts AttentionTrust in terms of buying a car.
Media Futures: From Theory to Practice
Seth Goldstein explains how AttentionTrust and /ROOT came to be.
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"Founded on the premise that the consumer has the right to her data, ROOT Markets is the first financial exchange for consumer leads."
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AttentionTrust - Returning Attention to its Rightful Owner: You
Joshua Porter gives a great description of what AttentTrust is and what it aims to do.
How to cut through the info blitz and actually get some work done
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AttentionTrust.org Explained Better
"You want to leverage your valuable attention/time/spending power so you get what you deserve. That's what AttentionTrust.org is championing."