Ian Forrester

BBC

Ian Forrester heads up the BBC’s Backstage, a developer/designer network like no other. His role as head of BBC Backstage includes working with internal and external developers/designers to express their creativity through BBC feeds and APIs. Backstage makes available as much BBC data as possible for any member of the public to republish, remix and mash-up under a non-commercial license.

Ian is also well known for geek social events, including London Geekdinners, BarCampLondon, Hackday, Edinburgh TV Un-Festival and recently BarCampLondon3. He’s currently master minding plans for “Over the Air” , a series of Backstage university outreach events and working with geeky school children. Somehow, Ian finds time to blog online regularly

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Sessions

16:45 Thursday, 8 May 2008

The attention economy is only just around the corner

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Ian Forrester (BBC)

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The attention economy was talked about at the end of 06 to death. Through all the hype, a couple of guys from down-under started to make sense of attention and proposed APML (Attention Profiling Markup Language).Unfortunately little is known about APML and there is a lot of mis-information on APML. As one of the working group members I will run through what it is, its purpose and why its important Read more.