Scrabulous, a popular Facebook Scrabble knockoff, may have gone down, but it isn’t out. Redesigned as “Wordscraper,” Scrabulous’ creators hope its revised creation falls outside the limits of Hasbro’s copyright.
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Archive for July, 2008
Scrabulous goes for bonus points, relaunches as Wordscraper
July 31, 2008Media Mensch: Scrabulous Innocence – A 2007 Interview with R
July 31, 2008This is a repost of my July 2007 written interview with Rajat Agarwalla creator of Scrabulous and my current opinion on the day scrabulous was taken off facebook in the US and Canada.
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The Fall of Scrabulous: A Lesson to All IP Pirates
July 31, 2008My Facebook friend and columnist Jason Ulanoff speaks out against online piracy and really hits the creators of Scrabulous very hard for their infringement on Scrabble. He provides a cautionary tale for online pirates.
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At Home with HomeLink: Free Internet Access Connects Familie
July 31, 2008One Tennessee district provides free Internt access as they do their part to bridge the digital divide.
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Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf
July 31, 2008Vin Cerf, the Internet Evangelist for Google and the Father of the Internet, says for the record that telecomms are hurting the national interest by trying to control the Internet with close networks instead of open networks.
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Internet Founders Talk About Fixing the Internet Congestion
July 31, 2008TechWeb’s Internet Evolution, a Web 2.0 site dedicated to investigating the future of the Internet, has gone back to the Internet’s co-founders, Vint Cerf and Larry Roberts, in search of answers about the looming crisis in Web congestion.
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Vinton G. Cerf – Fixing the Internet Traffic Problem
July 31, 2008Vint Cerf’s opinion on the idea the we should get the traffic we pay for
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Signal converter boxes are pretty easy to set up
July 31, 2008USA Today’s Ed Baig says the signal converter boxes are pretty easy to set up. Just in case you don not know all analog television sets will not work unless they have a converter box or are connected to cable or satellite or FiOs. The entire US is converting to the definition television in Febrary [...]
ER docs: Don’t text and walk, skate — or cook
July 30, 2008Convergence strikes again – people are getting hurt because they are texting and not paying attention to what they are dong! Duh!
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Game Over: Suit Spells the End For Facebook’s Scrabulous App
July 30, 2008It came as an unwelcome surprise to many Facebook friends and bored cubicle dwellers yesterday: Scrabulous was gone. The popular Scrabble knockoff was no longer available to U.S. users of the social networking site.
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