Category: Facebook Applications
Scrabulous returns as Wordscraper (allegedly): it looks awful!
With Scrabulous (North America) pulled from Facebook this week, the creators have returned with Wordscraper, which bears a passing resemblance to the original tile-based word formation game.
According to creators Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, Wordscaper is “the only game on Facebook that allows you to play the game the way you want to! With Wordscraper you can build your own board and try out whacky combinations with special high value squares…
Scrabulous removed from Facebook in North America, internet retaliates
“Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice,” reads a message from Scrabulous’ makers to players on Facebook. The removal of the Scrabulous application follows the lawsuit from Hasbro, the company which own the distribution rights to the Scrabble board game, which Scrabulous very closely resembles.
SuperShank knifing app removed from Facebook
Oh dear. It seems Facebook has got itself into trouble again. Some clever bod working on the Superpoke application decided to get cool with kids and add an option whereby you can knife your mates. Nice. Luckily they made it really easy for today’s blade obsessed teens to catch onto by even using the term “shank”. Good work…
Scrabble vs. Scrabulous – the legal showdown begins
With depressing inevitability, we bring news that Hasbro Inc, owners of the distribution rights to popular board game Scrabble have sued the creators of Facebook’s seemingly shameless rip-off, Scrabulous.
Facebook app Cityware using Bluetooth to spy on people without their consent
Research firm Cityware has hooked up thousands of Bluetooth scanners around the world and is using these to monitor how people move around the place – and dumping the data on Facebook.
The only problem is no one asked for the permission of some of the the scanees – so anyone with their phone’s Bluetooth powers enabled risks having their movements tracked by the freely-available Cityware…
Facebook sues identical German site StudiVZ – apparently
Facebook is suing a German social networking site by the name of StudiVZ for producing a site for central Europe that is more or less a direct rip off of the well-established international favourite. Well, that’s what the German company hear but, since the news broke on Friday, they have yet to receive any legal contact whatsoever…
New look Facebook launched for beta – apparently
Late last night Facebook launched the beta phase of the much anticipated re-design for the No.1 social networking site. The only trouble is, I can’t seem to get it.
Word is that if you go to www.new.facebook.com you can see the changes for yourself…
Look out Scrabulous – EA and Hasbro to launch legit Facebook Scrabble in North America
This week, Electronic Arts and Hasbro announced plans to launch the first licensed Facebook Scrabble game in North America. The licensed version will become available in mid to late July and will be free and without adverts, at least for the start.
Find friends you never knew you had with Signal Patterns Facebook application
Facebook solves the problem of tracking down the friends you lost contact with but how about the ones you never even met? Personality testing science site, Signal Patterns, has launched a new Facebook application of the same name designed to suggest new people that you might like to get social networking with.
The idea is that you take the Signal Patterns personality test…
Facebook "dipping" craze afflicting the wealthy – pool owners should be "extra vigilant"
Dipping is, apparently, the HOT NEW TREND among spoilt rich kids who live in the sort of areas where the neighbours all have swimming pools.
The Telegraph reports that youths – no doubt off their heads on alcopops and Skittles – have taken to tracking down nearby swimming pools on Google Earth, then organising midnight swim-meets in them with friends through crime-enabler Facebook…
