This patent is about the use of diaries with remote content (see quote), but given the current use of blogs (via sites as Blogspot, Wordpress etc) I would consider this to be a bit out-of-date.

A method and apparatus to create a "diary" containing multimedia references to contents of Websites. These references (also called addresses) can be to, for example, text, bookmarks, images, programs, movies, etc.

Aside from it's global usage, why did all these patents about 'physical products gone digital' (I mean, we already had an offline diary way before this patent was issued) get handed out in the first place? A lot of these products were already invented and I'm pretty sure that the issuers of patents like this weren't the only ones with such an idea, but merely the first one to get all the required resources together.

This patent is about the use of diaries with remote content (see quote), but given the current use of blogs (via sites as Blogspot, Wordpress etc) I would consider this to be a bit out-of-date.

A method and apparatus to create a "diary" containing multimedia references to contents of Websites. These references (also called addresses) can be to, for example, text, bookmarks, images, programs, movies, etc.

Aside from it's global usage, why did all these patents about 'physical products gone digital' (I mean, we already had an offline diary way before this patent was issued) get handed out in the first place? A lot of these products were already invented and I'm pretty sure that the issuers of patents like this weren't the only ones with such an idea, but merely the first one to get all the required resources together.

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This patent is about the use of diaries with remote content (see quote), but given the current use of blogs (via sites as Blogspot, Wordpress etc) I would concider this to be a bit out-of-date.

A method and apparatus to create a "diary" containing multimedia references to contents of Websites. These references (also called addresses) can be to, for example, text, bookmarks, images, programs, movies, etc.

Aside from it's global usage, why did all these patents about 'physical products gone digital' (I mean, we already had an offline diary way before this patent was issued) get handed out in the first place? A lot of these products were already invented and I'm pretty sure that the issuers of patents like this weren't the only ones with such an idea, but merely the first one to get all the required resources together.

This patent is about the use of diaries with remote content (see quote), but given the current use of blogs (via sites as Blogspot, Wordpress etc) I would consider this to be a bit out-of-date.

A method and apparatus to create a "diary" containing multimedia references to contents of Websites. These references (also called addresses) can be to, for example, text, bookmarks, images, programs, movies, etc.

Aside from it's global usage, why did all these patents about 'physical products gone digital' (I mean, we already had an offline diary way before this patent was issued) get handed out in the first place? A lot of these products were already invented and I'm pretty sure that the issuers of patents like this weren't the only ones with such an idea, but merely the first one to get all the required resources together.