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November 06, 2006

When the money comes knocking, egotism answers.

Posted by bopuc at November 6, 2006 12:10 PM

Flickr patents "Interestingness".

Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as "interestingness." These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the number of users who have assigned metadata to the media object, access patterns related to the media object, and/or a lapse of time related to the media object.

Sorry guys. I am officially revolted. Peh.
An awesome bit of code, for sure. A great idea, no doubt. An idea that needs to be "protected" and hoarded and kept from anyone else benefitting from? Hmmmm... hooray for progress!
Peh. Lame, lame, lame.

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Posted by: Stéphane Z. at November 6, 2006 12:52 PM

That is so lame.

I mean, when people Digg site, aren't they effectively "ranking the site at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the number of users who have assigned metadata to the media object, access patterns related to the media object, and/or a lapse of time related to the media object"?

That's a terribly broad-based definition, as all patents issued these days.

Peh indeed.

Posted by: Steven Mansour at November 6, 2006 01:18 PM

Wow, that's really disappointing. Thanks a lot Y!

:(

Posted by: James Walker at November 6, 2006 01:37 PM

Pretty much ... patenting this sort of thing is super-frivolous. Measures of relative goodness has been done a gazillion times, based on a raft of inputs - metadata, comments, clicks, diggs, links, votes, views, citations, GPA, SATs, etc.

Patent appears to still be pending, but COME ON.

Posted by: Michal Migurski at November 6, 2006 02:05 PM

« It is all about you. » Ceci est à encadrer. Yahoo! est un cauchemar pour les avocats et les portfolios de brevets.

Posted by: karl at November 6, 2006 04:52 PM

So that's where the Polish word "koszmar" (nightmare) comes from.

Posted by: Michal Migurski at November 7, 2006 03:27 AM