Oops! That Facebook Location Patent Forgot To Mention Crowley’s Earlier Dodgeball Patent
source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/07/dodgeball-patent-facebook/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium...
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Earlier this week, Facebook was granted a broad patent on mobile location-based social networks. It seems to cover everything from members of a social network sharing their location with each other through their mobile phones to manual checkins. In other words, it sounds like Facebook just patented Foursquare’s main product.
The application was submitted in February, 2007, well before Foursquare was even founded. But it forgot to mention one thing. In the long list of more than 50...
The application was submitted in February, 2007, well before Foursquare was even founded. But it forgot to mention one thing. In the long list of more than 50...
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