Patent ID: RE44324

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of sharing computer user experiences, including: communicating with a registration server to register a user , for automatic client-side collection of computer usage experiences for future sharing, wherein the computer usage experiences include one or more of browsing URLs or visiting a location with a location-aware device that records the visited location; accessing enabling access to one or more of the user's messaging buddy lists and selecting selection of one or more buddies with whom to share the automatically collected computer usage experiences; defining enabling definition of categories of computer usage experiences to be shared with particular selected buddies; and tracking automatically on the client-side at least a portion of the user's computer usage experiences and reporting information indicating the user's computer usage experiences to a tracking server to be published to the particular buddies in accordance with their defined categories of sharing to enable sharing of the computer usage experiences with the particular selected buddies in accordance with the defined categories .