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  • July 2008

    • Facebook Y-A-N-K-S Scrabulous

      PC Magazine  |  Jul 29, 08 10:52 AM CDT

      Facebook Y-A-N-K-S Scrabulous

      (Newser) - Facebook took down the wildly popular ‘Scrabulous’ this morning, PC Magazine reports, following a legal attack against the game's creators by the rights holders of Scrabble. The site finally folded to pressure after receiving a takedown notice from Hasbro, as well as Mattel, which owns international rights to the original Scrabble. More »

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      Facebook  • Mattel  • Scrabble  • Hasbro  • Scrabulous

    • Hasbro Sues Scrabulous, Warns Facebook

      ABC News  |  Jul 24, 08 9:05 PM CDT

      Hasbro Sues Scrabulous, Warns Facebook

      (Newser) - The makers of Scrabble say Scrabulous must go. Hasbro today sued the creators of the online knockoff, which is wildly popular on Facebook, and warned the social networking site to dtich the game, ABC News reports. No word yet on whether that will happen. Hasbro recently released its own online version of Scrabble, also available on Facebook, in conjunction with Electronic Arts. More »

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      Facebook  • copyright  • Hasbro  • Scrabble  • Scrabulous

    • End of Scrabulous Finally Near?

      TechCrunch  |  Jul 8, 08 4:27 PM CDT

      End of Scrabulous Finally Near?

      (Newser) - Facebook users anticipating a goodbye to the site’s popular unofficial Scrabble game may finally see it happen when an official one comes out later this month. Hasbro and Electronic Arts are preparing the alternative to Scrabulous, which Hasbro says infringes on its copyrights. “We are keeping our legal options open,” a Hasbro rep told TechCrunch regarding its on-again, off-again battle against the hugely popular rogue version. More »

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      Facebook  • Electronic Arts  • Scrabble  • Hasbro  • Scrabulous

  • April 2008

    • Facebook Apps Have Fans, Need Money

      BusinessWeek  |  Apr 18, 08 10:32 AM CDT

      Facebook Apps Have Fans, Need Money

      (Newser) - Facebook widgets have been wildly popular, but they haven’t always been wildly profitable. “The fascinating thing about widgets is it turns out that distribution isn't really the challenge,” says the CEO of VideoEgg, the developer behind Scrabulous and Flixster. "The question is how do you monetize that attention?” VideoEgg and companies like it think they have the answer, BusinessWeek reports: advertising. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • Internet advertising  • Scrabulous

  • March 2008

    • Sellers, Fans at Odds Over Scrabulous

      New York Times  |  Mar 2, 08 4:10 PM CST

      Sellers, Fans at Odds Over Scrabulous

      (Newser) - Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous is a hit online, but sellers of the original board game have cried piracy and may take their claim to court, the New York Times reports. Tens of thousands of Scrabulous players have threatened to boycott Hasbro and Mattel if they shut down the Facebook-friendly game, which was invented by two brothers in Calcutta—and has given Scrabble an unexpected popularity surge. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • boycott  • Mattel  • Hasbro  • Scrabble  • Scrabulous  • board games

  • January 2008

    • MySpace to Open Platform to Developers

      Associated Press  |  Jan 30, 08 1:00 PM CST

      MySpace to Open Platform to Developers

      (Newser) - Following the lead of rival Facebook, social networking giant MySpace will launch the MySpace Developer Platform next week, giving programmers deeper access to its site--possibly including the ability to tap into MySpace user data, AP reports. MySpace already informally allows programmers to develop widgets for it, and hopes the new platform will help developers make more money through the site. More »

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      Facebook  • MySpace  • Scrabulous  • widget  • platforms

    • Tonight May Be Game Over for Scrabulous

      TechCrunch  |  Jan 22, 08 2:44 PM CST

      Tonight May Be Game Over for Scrabulous

      (Newser) - Scrabulous—the wildly popular Facebook app based (without permission) on Scrabble—may have to fold up its board tonight. Hasbro and Mattel, which jointly own the rights to the board game, have set the deadline for the online game to either shut itself down or sell itself to Electronic Arts, which owns the online rights. More »

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      Facebook  • copyright infringement  • Scrabble  • Scrabulous

    • Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone

      Fortune Magazine  |  Jan 12, 08 6:00 AM CST

      Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone

      (Newser) - Hasbro, maker of the classic board game Scrabble, is moving to shut down Scrabulous, a widely popular—and virtually identical—online knockoff. It's currently the ninth most popular application on all of Facebook, with 2.3 million users. Scrabulous’ developers estimate their app brings in about $25,000 a month, about which Hasbro is none too pleased. More »

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      Facebook  • Electronic Arts  • Scrabble  • Hasbro  • Scrabulous  • knockoff

  • December 2007

    • Scrabble Players Flock to Facebook

      New York Times  |  Dec 17, 07 12:21 PM CST

      Scrabble Players Flock to Facebook

      (Newser) - The hottest application on Facebook these days is Scrabulous, based on the Hasbro boardgame. Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, a young brother duo from Calcutta, developed an online version of Scrabble in 2005. They put it on Facebook in June in the hopes of targeting 0.01% of the website's citizenry, but now it's got over half a million daily users. More »

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      Facebook  • Scrabble  • Scrabulous  • board games

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