Wednesday, May 28, 2008

SCRABULOUS VS. SCRABBLE!

Creating an application on facebook is not as easy as it may seem to some people,you can face some problems and law suits in doing that and also some defeat.this is wat exactly happened to 2 indian guys who launched an online Srabble application for facebook users. the application was able to attract many facebook users and today the number of users using this application reached to 629,000. Although the application became popular,the 2 indian guys face a legal suit because they did not have the proper authorization from the copyright holders (Hasbro and Mattel for the board game and Electronic Arts and RealNetworks for digital rights). In addition to this RealNetworks has now announced its own Scrabble application for Facebook: "Scrabble by Mattel". This application will not be availabe to users in US and Canada and so far people have been complaining that it doesnt work as good as Scrabulous did.

Because of this many facebook users are suggesting an improvement in this new application but RealNetworks is not giving them any answers. RealNetwork should know that for an application to work,the owners have to respond to any feedback.

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