The campaign starts here.
Scrabble has asked Facebook to remove Scrabulous from the site because of trademark infringement. I'm quite surprised, because I thought Scrabble had gone all Web 2.0 and come up with the application in the first place. Apparently not.
Though I have deliberately avoided the Scrabulous contagion in the past few months, there are members of the media desk devastated by the news that their favourite web occupation could be withdrawn. Facebook can't be too chuffed either: it brings in 600,500 users every day and is one of the ten most popular apps on the site.
Scrabulous was actually built by two developers in India; Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla.
It took around 0.4 seconds for someone to start a group for outraged Scrabulotti to protest at the possible closure. Plenty more people have said that the game has inspired a new interest in Scrabble, prompting sales in real-world Scrabble board games over Christmas.
So come on Hasbro/Mattel - why don't you just get wise, and buy Scrabulous? And that leaves the developers free to come up with something new. Just an idea.
Source: BBC
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