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Facebook's Broad Patent On Digital Media Tagging

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keep-cashing-the-checks dept.

bizwriter writes "Facebook has done well with the Friendster patents and patent applications that it acquired. Just last week, a patent application for passing personal info between users based on degrees of separation became public. Now, thanks to the Friendster IP purchase, Facebook pretty much owns the technology for publicly identity-tagging digital media of any sort in a database."

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  1. Re:Good. by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, it just makes you the one covered in shit and pointing a finger.

  2. Re:bullshit by demonbug · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just to enlarge upon your "temporarily" in your final sentence, isn't everything we own temporarily owned? After all, its not ours after death.

    I'm a corporation, you insensitive clod!