To quote an American Hero, I called it!

A while back I proclaimed my love of Scrabulous, and described that it was “basically an un-investigated copyright infringement on Scrabble.” Well, make that investigated. A few weeks ago Hasbro slapped a cease & desist on Scrabulous, citing, duh, copyright infringement.

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I’m not really the Facebook type. My “UPenn Friends” list barely tops 100. My wall doesn’t get much play. I link to my posts, but only because my editors make me.

And when Facebook introduced all those applications, I got kind of overwhelmed and pissed off. One time I got a notification that someone thought I was sexy, but to see who it was I had to install the “Sexy Application.” Forget it, I thought. I can’t deal with that kind of cockteasing.

But just when I was about to disable my account, along came Scrabulous. Created by the brothers Agarwalla (network: India), it’s basically an un-investigated copyright infringement on Scrabble. Scrabulous is pretty popular — it boasts about 500,000 daily users.

But the real question is, does it make you smarter?

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