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Day: 23 March 2010

Surely there has to be prior art for Proximity-Based Social Networking?

New Proximity Icon

Even PocketTweet on my windows mobile phone has the basic feature set for Proximity-Based Social Networking, I can’t understand how this could be granted a patent? Something is broken if Apple have been awarded this…

Author IanforresterPosted on March 23, 2010Categories socialware-onlineTags patent, proximity, social, socialnetworking
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