Facebook Lands Patent for News Feed

Social networking site is awarded patent for news feed activity stream, potentially giving it a monopoly on the technology behind an essential feature on dozens of sites across the social Web.

Social networking giant Facebook has won a patent for its news feed feature, locking in the intellectual property rights to one of its most popular features.

The patent describes "a method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment," detailing the flow and filtering of information about people's activities across the site. Read more.....

TED talk by Philip K. Howard on the Legal System

This was one of the best talks at TED. The title is: Four ways to fix a broken legal system