02-26-2007, 12:22 PM
Quote:SEARCH ENGINE outfit Yahoo filed a patent claiming that it invented Web 2.0...
Oddly the examples given in the patent include Web 2.0 offerings similar to Google's Personalised Home, Pageflakes, Netvibes and even online RSS readers. Yahoo! claims that it did the legwork for Web 2.0 in the late 1990s.
If the patent is granted, lawyers could be showing up at the door of Web 2.0 companies to demand cash...
full article: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37842
Yahoo's patent application: http://www.patentmonkey.com/PM/PatentID/7171414.aspx