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<description><![CDATA[<p><img src='http://www.socialtimes.com/images/friendster.gif' width='141' height='39' align='left' alt='-Friendster Logo-' />After three patents relating to social networking, Friendster is at it again.  The fourth patent for Friendster, called &#8220;Compatibility Scoring of Users in a Social Network,&#8221; seemingly pertains to matching users within the Friendster network for various purposes.</p>
<p>So far, Friendster is being pretty tight-lipped about its intended use of its new patent, and there&#8217;s only so much we can conjecture based on the patent&#8217;s name and the brief description of &#8220;scoring the compatibility between two members of a social network based on their interests and scoring the correlation between two interests for a given member of a social network.&#8221;<br />
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