Domain registrar gets patent for social networking dashboard.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. patent number 7840690 to The Go Daddy Group for “Internet portal for managing social websites”.
The patent appears to be related to the company’s SmartSpace web service, which aggregates multiple social networks into a single dashboard.
In the application, Go Daddy says that it has found a problem with current methods of aggregating social network information:
Applicant…has noticed that presently-existing systems and methods do not allow Internet users to manage multiple social websites in a simple, unified, and focused fashion. Internet users who join multiple social websites have no single website to which they can go to obtain access to all of their social websites. Similarly, Internet users’ friends, family, and/or other social contacts do not have a single website to which they may go to access all of the Internet user’s social website’s public webpages. For the foregoing reasons, there is a need for the systems and methods for managing multiple social websites and related functionality as described herein.
You can read the full patent here (pdf).
Glenda says
I am anxious to see what Go Daddy will do with this and how long it will take to get it running…
shahram says
yeah im not expecting to see anything amazing coming from godaddy. The UI lacks design and isnt really well thought out. Im sure the end result will just look like noise.