Interesting Facebook patent

02-26-2010, 07:41 PM

Not really a big deal. It's saying a newsfeed by a specific user, and it has many qualifiers.

It could never be used to battle the methods used by say Forum software, old dialup BBS's, Twitter, etc. The way it's written almost looks like they are simply trying to put the final nail in the MySpace coffin and nothing more.

MySpace technically could claim the rights to the "Status Update"/News Feed system as described in Facebook's patent as they came out I believe 3 years earlier? However I am sure they would drain what small amount of cashflow they have left fighting it and would end up closing up as a result.

02-26-2010, 07:41 PM	#3
sboyajian Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Interesting Facebook patent Not really a big deal. It's saying a newsfeed by a specific user, and it has many qualifiers. It could never be used to battle the methods used by say Forum software, old dialup BBS's, Twitter, etc. The way it's written almost looks like they are simply trying to put the final nail in the MySpace coffin and nothing more. MySpace technically could claim the rights to the "Status Update"/News Feed system as described in Facebook's patent as they came out I believe 3 years earlier? However I am sure they would drain what small amount of cashflow they have left fighting it and would end up closing up as a result.