Patent ID: 8862978

Claim:
A method for social networking with a mobile computing device comprising: providing for use on a mobile computing device a synchronization index, wherein said synchronization index is associated to multimedia, wherein the synchronization index comprises an electronic transcript that indicates text corresponding to audio from the multimedia, and wherein the synchronization index indicates respective times within the multimedia corresponding to when a word or range of words is audible in the multimedia; providing mobile computing device software, wherein said mobile computing device software comprises executable program code configured to receive the synchronization index, and wherein said text is able to be displayed other than as a web page, wherein said mobile computing device comprises a viewing screen and a touch-sensitive input interface, wherein said viewing screen is able to display multimedia and text from said synchronization index, wherein performing a user's selected gesture on a portion of said viewing screen corresponding to a portion of said text is recognized by said touch-sensitive input interface to facilitate annotation of a portion of said synchronization index, and wherein said mobile computing device software comprises executable program code configured to facilitate annotation of a portion of said synchronization index responsive to user input received by the mobile computing device; and communicating said annotation for subsequent retrieval on a second computing device via a network.