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Google's Comical New Social Networking Patent

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-see-what-you-did-there dept.

theodp writes "GeekWire reports on Google's just-granted patent on creating and sharing social network status updates in the form of comic strips, a la Bitstrips. Google also envisions an educational role for its new invention, which the search giant has dubbed the Self-Creation of Comic Strips in Social Networks and Other Communications. Google explains, 'Aside from humor, such comic strips are also usable for education, for instance in summarizing a real-time conversation between two political leaders as it is happening. By posting such a comic strip on a social network facility such as a social network blog or tweet, others may more readily follow the flow of the conversation than if it had been summarized in plain text.'"

6 of 45 comments (clear)

  1. Google Peanuts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Charlie Brown tries to kick a beta Google football. Lucy retires it right before Charlie Brown gets a chance to kick it.

  2. Microsoft Comic Chat by comm3c · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seems like it did mostly the same thing?

  3. Thanks by StripedCow · · Score: 2

    Google engineers are brilliant!
    They have found the cure against the number 1 killer disease in the US... boredom!

    Thank you, Google, for saving us! As a gift in return, you may have a peek at all our personal affairs.

    --
    If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
    1. Re:Thanks by DexterIsADog · · Score: 3, Funny

      Google engineers are brilliant! They have found the cure against the number 1 killer disease in the US... boredom!

      Actually, I think what they are attempting to cure is literacy.

      Because god knows Americans are too proud of their command of standard English, and lord their impeccable grammar and spelling over the rest of the world.

    2. Re:Thanks by QilessQi · · Score: 2

      Judging by the comments on certain internet fora in America, the most common languages currently appear to be:

      1. Vitriol
      2. Snarkese
      3. ALLCAPSISH
      4. $PAmm3R@ni@n!!
      5. LOLspeak and Doge.

      (I'm just kidding. No one speaks Doge.)

      --
      Koans and fables for the software engineer
  4. Give 'em the [patented comic strip] news they want by theodp · · Score: 2

    "nstead of giving people the news they need , why not give them the news they want ?"
    --Ron Burgundy, Anchorman 2