Friendster wins social networking patent
Check out this story from Red Herring. Friendster, the ailing granddaddy of social networks, has won a patent for online social networking.
LibraryThing's not in trouble. The patent is about social networking, particularly systems that limit you according to degrees of social separation, not shared book tastes. Still, it's a pretty obnoxious award. What's next, patenting one-click shopping? Oh. Never mind.
LibraryThing's not in trouble. The patent is about social networking, particularly systems that limit you according to degrees of social separation, not shared book tastes. Still, it's a pretty obnoxious award. What's next, patenting one-click shopping? Oh. Never mind.
posted by Tim at 9:49 PM
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TFA explains that this patent cites the sixdegrees one as prior art, which means that it was brought to the examiner's attention and he or she decided this was an patentable advance.
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