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Prior Art to Pinpoint vs. Amazon, from 1980's?

Posted by timothy on from the first-person-singular dept.

Gary Robinson writes "I'm in a fairly unique position with regard to the Pinpoint vs. Amazon case since I built a system in the mid-1980's which is commonly regarded as the first active service based on collaborative filtering. It was a voice-mail-based dating service called 212-ROMANCE. I still have the 8-inch CP/M source code disks as insurance against CF-related patent lawsuits. Today I've posted a discussion of the Pinpoint vs. Amazon case in the context of that prior art as well other prior art from the 1980's."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    owned

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      I just want to let whoever did the left hand bar thingy know that I think it's pretty cool. Much easier to navigate, and it fits the scheme of the site pretty well.

      If I may make a request, could you do a search-and-replace on all "bilious green" color= statements in the template to something like "cobalt blue" or, failing that, "white"?

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  3. Re:One should have to prove "no prior art"! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.

    All I know about Clinton is I had war when BigBush was president. Oh look, another war!

  4. Re:One should have to prove "no prior art"! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.

    Aren't economic bubbles exciting? Amazing the way the market started dropping in 2000, before Bush took office.

  5. Watch out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Drive-by degaussing!