Google granted ‘magazine patent’

November 20, 2007

From ITproPortal.com:

“Techcrunch and Huomah are reporting that Google is looking into launching a Do It Yourself Publishing Service for Magazines.”The patent abstract says that Google is investigating

“A method includes receiving personalized content from a plurality of content sources. The personalized content is based on user input. The method further includes receiving a personalized advertisement based on user input, and creating a customized publication including the personalized content and the personalized advertisement.”"

More here. Thanks to Richard Grimes of the NUJ New Media mailing list for the link.

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2 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Dr John Cokley  |  November 20, 2007 at 11:31 am

    next thing they’ll be patenting “the computer”?

  • 2. newsroomnext » Blog&hellip  |  November 20, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    [...] grabs a patent for producing printed publications from Web content [via Dan Blank, Online Journalism Blog and [...]

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