News - Google to turn users' online conversations into comic strips

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Patent granted for "Self-creation of comic strips in social networks and other communications".

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Bitstrip. Thanks.

Oh god no....

Fatuous nonsense.

Go and read nntp://uk.rec.sheds. The threads branch and diverge with people coming and going, the replies consist of interleaved quoted blocks of text, some of them dozens of lines long, and the custom and practice is to talk in a private patois. One thread, called "Britain is best" lasted over a year and ran to around 64,000 messages.

If Google think they are going to turn that into a story board they will be using all thier CPU cycles with nothing left for search!

Oh, it might amuse the hard-of-thinking stunted teenager using SMS, but that's about all!

Pathetic.

Because I've always thought to myself "Gosh, I wish this conversation were more comic-strip-like".

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...sComicChat.png

Another comic strip, eh?

I bet the meme guy is kicking himself he didn't get a patent