Posts Tagged with ‘Scrabble’

Scrabulous Creators Get Sneaky, Bring it Back as Wordscraper

Triston McIntyre,

Isn't this just the flurry of social gaming news we've had in the last few days?  My penchant has been more than satisfied.  Though Scrabble creator Hasbro decided to throw a small temper tantrum, known as a "lawsuit," about Scrabulous' rather blantant copy of the popular boardgame for the web, the folks responsible for Scrabulous rallied back and took some precautious measures to make sure the good people of social media wouldn't be without their word game for too long.
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Facebook, Scrabble and Scrabulous — Why all the Hulabaloo?

Triston McIntyre,

There couldn't be a better time for the intertubes to erupt in controversy over social games than the day after I post on the merits of real casual gaming in social media versus the self-proclaimed phenomenon of casual gaming, Nintendo's Wii.  I'm not sure what feeds you readers might check throughout the day, but a large group of my own feeds have been focused on the sensational Facebook game Scrabulous being shut down in the U.S. and [...]

Out with the Spam, in with Presdo for Facebook

Triston McIntyre,

Now that I've been able to rid myself of those pestersome "Pet Hotties" application invites (thanks to the wonderful "Block Application" feature), I genuinely look forward to receiving invites to creative and helpful applications. Though many are still lack-luster and questionable, I'm quite pleased with the direction many developers of Facebook applications are taking.
One application I can legitimately say I look forward to using is the forthcoming application for Presdo, a social calendar application that intuitively allows users [...]

Scrabulous and Fair Use

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira,

Odds are, if you are on Facebook, you've played at least part of a game of Scrabulous, a virtual duplicate of the popular board game Scrabble® that currently resides on a list of the top 10 applications installed on Facebook.
I've played several games, most with my Profy colleage Leslie Poston, but from the first moment I saw it, I wondered how long it would be until I saw a takedown notice. Scrabulous is not licensed in any way, shape, or [...]