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Oooh, yes please.

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This is serious. Hasbro and Mattel, who make the Scrabble board game, have asked Facebook to remove Scrabulous.
I must admit that I was puzzled by the legal status of the game when Charlie and I first descended into addiction. I wondered if the copyright had expired, or whether the Scrabulous coders had come to some [...]

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Busy week, sorry for the lack of posts.
Been writing a story based on a report by Experian that makes some interesting, if not entirely original, predictions about the rise of the “super advocate” in 2008. Basically, the idea is that the opinions of influential figures within an online community will dictate how a company or [...]

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Must be a slow week in online journalism, as I feel myself moved to observe the passing of Facebook’s compulsory “is” in the status field.
Thrilled and baffled in equal measure, I and others emerged blinking this morning into a limitless grammatical utopia - names have been disguised to protect the idle.
It’s an odd thing that [...]

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Just found this in my Facebook “news” feed; a sponsored poll asking whether the site’s users also use LinkedIn.
I’d love to know exactly who sponsored this particular sponsored poll. I’m guessing it wasn’t LinkedIn.
The survey sample is likely to be a bit skewed, being active Facebook users and all, but the results, as they [...]

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