{"id":646457,"date":"2013-03-12T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T03:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=371281"},"modified":"2013-03-12T23:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T03:58:53","slug":"new-apple-tech-may-out-stalkers-on-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646457","title":{"rendered":"New Apple tech may out \u2018stalkers\u2019 on social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/12\/apple-social-network-stalkers-patent-371281\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/apple-sign-sky.jpg?w=650&amp;h=544&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Social Network Stalkers\" title=\"Apple\" \/><\/a><\/center>There are some areas where <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) thrives and some areas where it continues to struggle, and social networks definitely fall into the latter category. Apple&#8217;s failed Ping service is the biggest piece of evidence that the company isn&#8217;t quite sure what users want from a social network, so the company now relies on deeper Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=FB\">FB<\/a>) and Yelp integration for most of the social aspects of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/ios\">iOS<\/a>. Apple is still toying with its own social features behind closed doors that may enhance various third-party social services though, and a new patent reveals some interesting functionality that Apple is developing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/12\/apple-social-network-stalkers-patent-371281\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/pTtO594Eqao\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some areas where Apple (AAPL) thrives and some areas where it continues to struggle, and social networks definitely fall into the latter category. Apple&#8217;s failed Ping service is the biggest piece of evidence that the company isn&#8217;t quite sure what users want from a social network, so the company now relies on deeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}