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Amazon Pursues Plogging Patent

Posted by Hemos on from the add-it-to-the-one-click-patent-trophy dept.

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."

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  1. Blurb authoring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    The method of claim 15, wherein receiving a plurality of blurbs comprises receiving blurbs generates using a blurb authoring pipeline provided in association with the electronic catalog.

    It sounds like they are talking out of their blurb authoring pipeline

  2. Next Up by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny


    Amazon combines Plogs, Reviews, and One-Click and gets a patent on Prick.

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  3. New portmanteau words make my head hurt by kahei · · Score: 5, Funny


    '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.

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