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venturebeat.com - 1/7/2009
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This summer, board game makers Hasbro and Mattel forced the popular Facebook gaming application Scrabulous to shut down, claiming that it violated the companies’ copyrights on crossword board game Scrabble. But nearly half a year later, the official Scrabble applications that Hasbro and ...
blog.facebook.com - 1/7/2009
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blog.facebook.com —
Today, we reached another milestone: 150 million people
around the world are now actively using Facebook and
almost half of them are using Facebook every day. This includes people in every continent—even Antarctica.
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A Great Start to 2009
news.cnet.com - 1/9/2009
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(Credit: Burger King) Facebook's developer platform has been
used for a zillion marketing campaigns so far, but
this one is actually dead-on hilarious. Fast-food chain Burger King has created " Whopper Sacrifice ," a Facebook app that will ...
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Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper
canada.com - 1/7/2009
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canada.com —
W hen esthetician Crystal Bell was fired via
Facebook, she spawned a debate over"cyber sacking" and what
employers owe their employees in times when electronic communication has become the norm. "I think it's going to be the way of the future, but for ...
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Facebook firing sparks ethics debate
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How Hasbro And Mattel Killed Interest In Online Scrabble
Techdirt —
... of Scrabulous on Facebook. The ridiculously popular application was attracting over 500,000 users every day and (amazingly) making Scrabble cool again, pumping up sales of the physical board game. But, of course, the intellectual property lawyers freaked out and said "this must stop." The resulting legal threats and lawsuits created quite a lot of backlash and anger (and a boycott of Hasbro games). Venturebeat is now looking at the aftermath, and shows that the fight effectively killed all momentum for Scrabble on Facebook. Part of the problem ...
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