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Amazon's Bezos Wants Web Advertising Patent

Posted by Hemos on from the dear-lord dept.

theodp writes "Just published today by the USPTO--Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' patent application for adding advertisements to web pages. Sure would be ironic if those 50,000 online banner impressions on oreillynet.com Amazon receives as a Platinum Sponsor of the upcoming O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference turn out to constitute patent infringement." Someone *has* to have prior art on this - GEnie/Prodigy/BBSes embedding ads for memberships.

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  1. out of control by SubtleNuance · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Attention Americans:

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop the insanity in Washington. Allowing "patents" like these are a direct result of your Plutocratic administration.

    Can you people PLEASE vote for someone other than a Republicrat?

  2. Your going to get modded down for that by diablobynight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot has greatly declined, there is no doubt about that. They throw up hasty articles. That don't really matter, and word them in a way that will scare or disturb slash dotters. I think Slashdot should team up with Fox News, They seem to have a lot in common. Mod me down, see if I care.

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  3. Re:What? by bheerssen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, man, it's O.K. You can go back to sleep now. We'll let you know when Duke Nukem Forever is released.

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