I don't think you should lie when advertising your product.

I truly believe that's the case. It's simply a subjective opinion, not trying to lie. I think it's better than twitter because of the reply system, whereas twitter doesn't support conversations very well. You may not think it's better, but it doesn't mean it's a lie. Although, I would love to hear your thoughts on why it's not better. :)

Especially when it looks like Raveler co-opted Path.app's logo.

We actually took a lot of logo inspiration from the CNN app, instead of Path. If you had a chance to take a look at the app. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

For your convenience, here's the clickable link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/raveler/id641285606

What's the big deal about this? If you have nothing to hide, then why worry about the government looking into your data?

Thanks for helping me wasting 10 mins of my life :)

most likely that was best 10 minutes of your day :-)

Probably true haha!

It's just rich people doing stupid things. It is however unnecessary to associate the entire valley with one idiot.

I've been facing this exact same problem for a while now. I've always wanted a network where I'm not confined by just the "friends" I know or the people I follow. I want content, conversation, not fame driven profiles. This isn't a spam or commercial for my own service. But my friend and I just released our own service to address these issues. We created raveler to focus on "tags", aka categories of content. You follow tags and receive the contents related to that. On top of this, we made sure that everyone (people who follow or not follow the tag) can contribute to the conversation by simply reply. Kinda like HN I guess. Take a look and I'd love to improve the service based on your feedback. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/raveler/id641285606?ls=1&...

My vote, get rid of utility and design patents. Those are usually used for trolling and killing innovation.

Having seen quite a few design patents, and copyrighted designs, I'm not even sure where the line is between the two. Utility patents are the traditional patents in question (software and functional objects). I don't think you can get a design patent for software.

I'm all for utility patents, if the patent examining system is changed to get more help or advice from experts in the field, to more quickly find previous pertinent patents that could expedite invalidation of infringing applications, or decide if it's too broad.

Very cool information, and it's very much what I'm seeing personally. Just from the number of linked in pokes I get, SF is by far the highest city.

This is simply ridiculous. I won't even dare to imagine what our country will be like if our president is from that idiotic state. oh wait, it has happened, and it got us into shitty wars and trillions of dollars in debt.

Greetings from Texas! I tried to be friendly but was modded down, so I'll just be straightforward: Your insult of our state is unkind and inaccurate.

There's an informal italian patent on this. But not an international one, because "offend against the generally accepted laws of physics and established theories".

The real difference is in disclosing the "secret sauce": a patent needs to disclose it, that's the whole point of patents. If that's not so, then it isn't really a patent on this (supposed) invention.

@teamonkey: if so, ok. I was also forgetting something I had studied (being Italian): in Italy patents aren't awarded after an examination, they basically just certify the date of your claims. The whole examination and discussion of the patent are left to a trial, if there is ever one regarding it. I guess that' what the OP meant by "informal" patent.

The parent was saying that there are clauses in international patent law that prevent applications for devices such as this, mainly because of time wasting and fraud.