Thursday, July 31, 2008

square to circle and...ta da! no more lawsuit


These guys are fast. Just two days after the Scrabulous developers got pulled from Facebook, they're back. Meet WordScraper, the new Fbook app from the Agarwall brothers. Its quite similar to Scrabble, but with circular tiles and the ability for users to customize the "rules." Its surprisingly smooth, which tells me they probably had this one sitting in the back room collecting dust until they ran into problems such as Tuesday's. Whatever the case, their daily active users aren't quite what Scrabulous was (500,000+), or even Scrabble (64,744), but at 3,569, its a start.

I think lawsuits should start to be treated like timeouts...start with a finite number so you use them wisely. Where's the love Viacom? Hasbro? MediaSet?

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