That make me think not every company is a money leech. O'reilly has some awesome products and it's good to see them putting them out there for anyone (with a PC at least to start the cycle) to use.
I guess if you can barely turn a profit quarter to quarter than you need to rely on your patent-portfolio to help out the bottom line.
As stated earlier this could wipe out newsgroups and comment forums. Scary enough though, it looks like it is meant to get E-Bay...
1. A method in a computer system of a non-participant for starting a discussion relating to an item offered for sale, the method including:
providing information describing a plurality of items being offered for sale; receiving from an originating participant a selection of one of the items being offered for sale;
providing to the originating participant information describing the selected item offered for sale and an indicator for starting a discussion relating to the item being offered for sale, the information and the indicator to be displayed to the originating participant;
in response to selection of the displayed indicator by the originating participant of the discussion, providing to the originating participant an initial discussion thread that includes a description of the item being offered for sale;
receiving from the originating participant comments to be added to the discussion thread;
receiving from the originating participant an indication of one or more other participants of the discussion;
providing the discussion thread, with the description of the item and the received comments added along with a link that when selected effects the placing of an order to purchase the item, to the one or more other participants, and
tracking the discussion thread as one or more of the participants add comments to the discussion.
Not the most articulate of responses but appropriate for the moment.
Well now we know that most of that technology actually belongs to Intertrust.
What do you expect them to do? It's not like they're going to get an anti-trust suit filed against them anytime soon...
The slimp3 is a good place to start. You can use one network share and send out synced or seperate streams. http://www.slimdevices.com/
TROGDOR! BURNINATOR!
Good or bad it's still fun to watch.
Well at least I've got more books on the wishlist, hope they don't get me on the FBI's library watch-list.
But at this point still illegal.
That make me think not every company is a money leech. O'reilly has some awesome products and it's good to see them putting them out there for anyone (with a PC at least to start the cycle) to use.
It's good to be an American. If you'll excuse me, I've got some patents to go draft.
Yvan Eht Nioj!
-EB
As stated earlier this could wipe out newsgroups and comment forums. Scary enough though, it looks like it is meant to get E-Bay...
1. A method in a computer system of a non-participant for starting a discussion relating to an item offered for sale, the method including:
providing information describing a plurality of items being offered for sale; receiving from an originating participant a selection of one of the items being offered for sale;
providing to the originating participant information describing the selected item offered for sale and an indicator for starting a discussion relating to the item being offered for sale, the information and the indicator to be displayed to the originating participant;
in response to selection of the displayed indicator by the originating participant of the discussion, providing to the originating participant an initial discussion thread that includes a description of the item being offered for sale;
receiving from the originating participant comments to be added to the discussion thread;
receiving from the originating participant an indication of one or more other participants of the discussion;
providing the discussion thread, with the description of the item and the received comments added along with a link that when selected effects the placing of an order to purchase the item, to the one or more other participants, and
tracking the discussion thread as one or more of the participants add comments to the discussion.
Stop the insanity!
-EB
I will continue to use Outlook Express until Outlook comes with the same feature to setup http:// email accounts.
Animal Pr0n!
Is find my ASCII PRON!