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Amazon Pursues Plogging Patent
theodp writes "When it unveiled a beta of Plogs (personalized blogs), a nonpublication request Amazon had in effect prevented the USPTO from disclosing that Plogs were patent-pending. But now you can check out Amazon's patent application for the Personalized selection and display of user-supplied content to enhance browsing of electronic catalogs, which describes how 'blurbs' can be made available in a blog format for viewing by others."
It seems Slashdot will soon owe royalties to Amazon..
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Pogs?
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It sounds like they are talking out of their blurb authoring pipeline
Excuse me, but I have patented the process of posting individualized comments based on past reading of a slashdot article. Please cease and desist all posting activity until we can work out a licensing arrangement.
-py
So this is the age when we change a letter of an already annoying idea, patent it, and sue everyone who infringes? Soon I will patent this new idea I had called pife -- it's when you are born, live and grow up, become a productive member of society -- but it's different than life because it's more personal and it's branded with my own special logo, and ongoing product placement using cranial implants.
Soon you will all bow to me!
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Amazon combines Plogs, Reviews, and One-Click and gets a patent on Prick.
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I'd like to announce that I've patented the following technologies, and everybody who makes use of such concepts must now pay me an annual fee starting ar $500,000 per year.
WLOG (TM)
A whining blog. Log in, bitch all day about traffic/technology/your boyfriend/your tatoo/your parents/your friends/school. Under this new concept, users will be able to whine more fast and more effectivelly than ever, thanks to our Instant-Whine(TM) technology that allows for up-to-the-second bitching about the upcoming issues.
SLOG (TM)
The server blog. With this breakthrough concept, now servers (and other applications) themselves can write blogs about what's happening to them. We find this kind of blog will be most interesting to system administrators and aficcionados alike. You'll fully understand the advantages of this system when you read your server's SLOG (TM) and find entries such as "I'm feeling bored today. I took 10.6231 seconds to process the last data backup. I had to rewrite 12731312kb of old files in the process. Those people can't create new files or what?".
DLOG (TM)
The dead blog. Create once, never post anymore. We think we can make big bucks with this tech, as most blogs effectively become a DLOG sooner or later. With our post lock feature, you can force your own blog to become a DLOG (TM) and never be able to post on it anymore.
SPLOG (TM)
The spam fest blog. This is actually an improved version of DLOG (TM); it not only makes your blog dead, but also leave comments open for comment spammers so they can build up their google rankings. Enjoy having thousands of posts about free onl1ne poker, v1agra and pen1s enlargement on your 6-words "I'm feeling bored" post.
This is just a preview of the many technologies we're creating that enable YOU - the user - to blog more effectively than ever. Stay tooned for several new exciting releases in the future.
'plogging'?? This is the sort of gratuseless neologism that's making modern webontent so incomprusing. Why can't they use ordular, regdinary words that we've all heard of? Why must they inventorate these mad brandologues, taking the initialet of a well-known verbagos and sticking it haprandom onto a pointuculous wundragubbin?
This frumblotionary addlepoopery is threatening to grurmstipth crumbobblious fremd eebree zorn frell completely and utterly INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.