[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Facebook Granted Patent on Check-ins, Don’t Bet on Them Using it
- [ReadWriteWeb - Marshall Kirkpatrick ]
Facebook was awarded a broad patent on location based social networking today…
The patent, called Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members, was filed for in 2007. The patent office is clearly broken; the internet has moved so far ahead since the time this patent was filed that it just looks absurd.
[What. -L]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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