{"id":4428,"date":"2006-04-29T21:57:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T21:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tv-community.html"},"modified":"2006-04-29T21:57:27","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T21:57:27","slug":"tv-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/tv-community.html","title":{"rendered":"TV Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has recently had a patent approved in an area that allows communities to be built around TV content. The idea is to be able to click on a link in a program and go to a chatroom.<\/p>\n<p>The same idea can obviously work with voice as well. This is a great application for voice communities. Even better &ndash; video communities where you send a video clip of what you think about the show, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the patent is more complicated than this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlmag.com\/1448\/microsoft-to-take-internet-chatting-to.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">article<\/font><\/a> lets on but it seems very trivial and I can&#8217;t imagine anyone getting a patent for something that seems so obvious. Then again I am not a patent attorney.<\/p>\n<p>As I see this concept as integral part of all future TV watching this patent is a nice feather in Microsoft&rsquo;s cap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has recently had a patent approved in an area that allows communities to be built around TV content. The idea is to be able to click on a link in a program and go to a chatroom. The same idea can obviously work with voice as well. This is a great application for voice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,218,118,190,191],"tags":[1123,1124],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}