Sure each service I use can tailor the service to my attention behaviour so it can serve me better eg. touchstone, findory, etc…

But I want to own every movement I make with every service I use…then I can plug this in and give a new service I use a head start (a bit of pre-tuning).

Something has come to my attention (pardon the pun) and that is a post by Paul Montgomery, who says that attention recording may be dangerous if we were to do it ourselves using a non-profit start-up, because of the potential of being bullied with greater effect by big brother, over a big company like Google or Microsoft.
Here’s the post: http://tinfinger.blogspot.com/2006/01/trust-google-or-trust-attentiontrust.html

See more: http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/10/05/attention-trust-recorder

As you say there are a lot of web services that are trying to solve this problem in their own way, bu I think for something so span across many sites that the tool needs to be on the client-side.

I posted about this on our blog a few days ago actually:

http://www.touchstonegadget.com/blog/2006/06/power-back-in-your-hands.html

I’m the Executive Director of AttentionTrust, a nonprofit dedicated to educating people about the existence and value of attention data, and empowering them to make effective use of their own attention data.

I’m also married to a librarian, so I was thrilled to see you posting on this subject. I look forward to hearing more!

Ed Batista