Facebook's Broad Patent On Digital Media Tagging 61
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CmdrTaco
from the keep-cashing-the-checks dept.
from the keep-cashing-the-checks dept.
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."
bullshit (Score:5, Informative)
I've been tagging people in photos in iphoto for years.
but we've been zucked.