26.02.2010

Facebook patents the news feed

Posted by Andy Harris in Made us chuckle

The very existence of Peptalk appears to be under threat as today Facebook were granted a patent on…..the news feed?

According to Mashable, exactly what this patent covers is as follows:

A method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment is described. The method includes generating news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment and attaching an informational link associated with at least one of the activities, to at least one of the news items, as well as limiting access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers and assigning an order to the news items. The method further may further include displaying the news items in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers and dynamically limiting the number of news items displayed.

What could this mean to Peptalk? Don’t ask me, I stopped reading after the first sentence. If you want to read more, check out the full article here.

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