Scrabulous has, of course, been removed from Facebook. It seems that Hasbro had some problem with EXACTLY copying Scrabble. Couldn’t they make the J worth 7  instead or something?

Anyway, since it was such a big hit (one of the most popular Facebook applications), its removal caused a fair amount of angst. See here, here, and here for the standard protest groups.

Well, it’s back! Wordscraper provides the Scrabulous experience…and it’s no longer an exact duplicate of Scrabble. There are some key differences…for example, the tiles are no longer square, they are round(ish).

Somehow, I think Hasbro might still find some similarities. Reminds me of a classic scene from a 80s movie where the proprietor of McDowell’s restaurant describes the differences between his establishment and the Golden Arches.

Look… me and the McDonald’s people got this little misunderstanding. See, they’re McDonald’s… I’m McDowell’s. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.

In the spirit of a blatent pandering for comments healthy competition, the first person to identify the movie and tell which two future Academy Award winners appeared in cameos wins an audio version of Wikinomics narrated by the fabulous Alan Sklar.