Comments on: Friendster Patents Social Networking

By: eMoms at Home » Blog Archive » More on the Friendster Patent

eMoms at Home » Blog Archive » More on the Friendster Patent — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:59:38 +0000

[...] Since my earlier entry on the subject was a popular post, I have been watching the story carefully. I had feared the news would put a damper on my own plans to build a social network on my sites – but it became clear early on that the patent only applied to a “six degrees of separation” model that is unique to Friendster, MySpace, FaceBook and LinkedIn. [...]

By: The Everyday Economist

The Everyday Economist — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:09:59 +0000

Enforcement will be costly. Very costly.

Even a giant like Walmart backs down sometimes:
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2006/07/13/okay-to-steal-cheap-stuff-from-wal-mart/

And these are people who are actually commiting crimes. Enforcing patents is usually not worth it, and a tactic to drain money from other companies in the form of settlements. Little else comes from them (at least this sort of wish-wash patent)

By: Internet Marketing for Solopreneurs By Biana » Blog Archive » Friendster Patents Social Networking

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:52:28 +0000

[...] I recently read in Wendy Piersall’s blog post, Friendster Patents Social Networking that Friendster received a patent that convers online social networks. [...]

By: Susan Reynolds

Susan Reynolds — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:45:40 +0000

Woman are experienced at making connections off the grid and the blogosphere is as good a place as any to do that. From where I sit, if friendster wants to challenge us to take our network building underground we can oblige. It’s kind of laughable though, isn’t it?