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Facebook's Broad Patent On Digital Media Tagging
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."
I've been tagging people in photos in iphoto for years.
but we've been zucked.
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Good. When shit hits the fan now I can point my finger at one entity. Make my life easier!
We should start a new Slashdot and return control to the geeks. It actually wouldn't be that hard to get some users to
Software patents retarded. Idea obvious. Prior art exists. And so on and so forth...
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
no surprise there? how many 1000 babys going up in smoke again today? how many 1000's of just folks to be killed or displaced again today? hard to put $$ on that. the cost of constant deception, to our spirit? paying to have ourselves constantly spied on & lied to by freaky self chosen neogod depopulationers? the biblically styled fatal distraction holycost is all encompassing, & never ends while we're still alive, unless we cut them/ourselves off at the wmd. good luck with that, as it's not even a topic anywhere we get to see, although in real life it's happening everywhere as our walking dead weapons peddlers are being uncontracted. you can call this weather if it makes you feel any better. no? read the teepeeleaks etchings.
so, once one lie is 'infactated', the rest becomes just more errant fatal history.
disarm. tell the truth. the sky is not ours to toy with after all?
you call this 'weather'? what with real history racing up to correct
itself, while the chosen one's holycostal life0cider mediots continually
attempt to rewrite it, fortunately, there's still only one version of the
truth, & it's usually not a long story, or a confusing multiple choice
fear raising event.
wouldn't this be a great time to investigate the genuine native elders social & political leadership initiative, which includes genuine history as put forth in the teepeeleaks etchings. the natives still have no words in their language to describe the events following their 'discovery' by us, way back when. they do advise that it's happening again.
who has all the weapons? who is doing MOST of the damage? what are the motives? are our intentions & will as the ones who are supposed to be being represented honestly & accurately, being met? we have no reference to there being ANY public approval for the current mayhem & madness pr firm regime style self chosen neogod rulership we've allowed to develop around us, so we wouldn't have to stop having fun, & doing things that have nothing to do with having to defend from the smoke&mirrors domestic frenetics, of the unproven genocides. rockets exploding in syria fired from Libya? yikes?
the zeus weather weapon is still being used indiscriminately against the population, our rulers' minions are fleeing under fire.
the whore of babylon has been rescued by the native elders. she has the papers of challenge authored by the hymenical council, & is cooperating wholeheartedly with the disarmament mandate.
disarm. thank you.
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Time to pay up to the Zuck!
This kind of shakedown economy seems to be the norm. I ought to get a patent on chewing gum "while on the internet", incorporate and then sell out for big $$$.
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Isn't this the same concept as being a member of a group and gaining a variety of access permissions?
How is this not the same just changing the naming semantics of the general idea?
I mean can i just patent any idea and substitute a previously defined terms with my own made up one?
The fact that you can even call tagging someone in a picture "technology" is ridiculous.
Fuck Facebook(tm)
Disclaimer: Software patents are stupid.
That said, after reading the patent excerpt, it appears as though it requires 2nd-party notification of the tagging to be covered. That limits the scope incredibly, and seems as though it would make it fairly easy to avoid.
you guys are amazing. Very snarky. Always makes me lol. Thinking of patenting my own brand of snark and selling it to facebook. I want to call it Zuckerberg's (a) famous pig.
There is a lot of discussion about whether software should be patentable or not...
I wonder, why nobody discusses, well, for how long such patents should be granted.
In the end, if software patent would be good for 5 years, it would not be as big issue. Time in IT flies faster than in other disciplines.
This piece is so sensationalist. The "patent" that is the subject of this silly rant is just an application for patent, filed 5 months ago. A patent application gives no rights at all. Every patent that is filed starts off broad like this and then gets narrowed down. I don't know why I even click patent related links on slashdot...
Some companies get patents for defensive purposes to ensure no one else patents it and uses it against them. I had a serious knee-jerk reaction when my employer sent out an email advertising our patent program. The explanation I got was that we weren't going to be patenting stuff to keep others from doing those things, but to patent them before others do so that we can't be sued. Facebook could be doing just that. In that same email, I was told that the company despises the state of IP and have active lobbying efforts to change things. I felt much better about my employer after hearing all of that.
...as befits Facebook's privacy flaws.
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I've been incorporating the ability for users to tag themselves and others, as well as send out notifications for confirmation or rejection, in digital content since 2000 - one of my sites http://friendsite.com/ has used it extensively as well as others - hmmmm I'm sure there's a ton of prior art out there...
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So Facebook wants a monopoly on feeding user-tagged photos to various intelligence services? Makes one wonder how much they are getting paid for that.
Can someone successfully patent saving the names of who is in a picture along with the picture...
I mean, since photography started, and even before in paintings, the people in these have been written down, sometimes on the backside of the image, sometimes on a piece of paper that accompany the picture and sometimes in a small book or the book in which the picture was published... This is century old technology... But suddenly someone is granted a patent on it in the US...
If it was not so tragic because of the forseeable HUGE costs in lawsuits and years of legal battles, it would be hillarious...
well good for them taking over tht market to,but they still havent perfected it. Sure on ur profile you can tag pics,but cannot tag pics on Our Fanpages,before any trolls come screaming "yes you can yes you can" by switching to use Facebook as your Fanpage,well no it still spits an error message, the "oops something happend,we are working on it" or whtever the message is. Why would you want to tag pics on your fanpage do you ask? ah well u know those cool banners you see people adding to their profile split into 5 images? well it would be awesome if you could do tht on fanpages as well,but cannot as you cant tag pics for Fanpages.. c'mon Facebook stop buying up the world and fix shit you have already!
Just don't use a database
I was reading up on some of the ridiculous patent applications made by facebook.. here's another one..
http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/patent-gives-facebook-broad-power-over-mobile-location-networking-update/5933?tag=content;drawer-container
Okay.. I dunno how smart the patent division of Facebook is.. but they seem to think Zuckerberg is the only guy in the world who can think more than one level. Quite literally in the case of the original article. It is plain dumb to try and patent common sense... You think of Friends, and any dumbass would reach at Friends of Friends.. I personally have come up some with the ideas which facebook is trying to patent... and when I was high and within a few hours.. So, this whole patent thing is really childish... you can't patent what someone can and cannot think... Antitrust is what it is...
I was reading up on some of the ridiculous patent applications made by facebook.. here's another one.. Broad patent on Location networking Okay.. I dunno how smart the patent division of Facebook is.. but they seem to think Zuckerberg is the only guy in the world who can think more than one level. Quite literally in the case of the original article. It is plain dumb to try and patent common sense... You think of Friends, and any dumbass would reach at Friends of Friends.. I personally have come up some with the ideas which facebook is trying to patent... and when I was high and within a few hours.. So, this whole patent thing is really childish... you can't patent what someone can and cannot think... Antitrust is what it is...
The last person to mod me down is a rotten egg..... there.. that should do it..
What an insane patent.
I've tagged things in delicio.us for years, in my gmail for years, Slashdot tags, my photo organizing software that came with my digital camera I bought 6 or so years ago ... I'm sure in probably more examples if I think about it ...
Depending on how far reaching this patent is, that pretty much sums up half of the "Web 2.0" stuff -- tag clouds are pretty much used everywhere nowadays.
It really is hard to believe that patents are providing any of the benefits they're supposed to. I can only imagine the wholesale extortion this patent can provide.
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