Facebook Secures Patent For Newsfeed

The social networking world is in for a shakeup. Facebook now owns the patent for the newsfeed. Patent #7,669,123 reveals Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and seven other current and former Facebookers as inventors have been assigned the rights to the patent.

Sites such as MySpace, Flickr, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, Yahoo Mail, and Windows Live all generate some sort of newsfeed. What does this all mean to the other sites. Only time will tell.

[Via Mashable]