A cry of woe went up from Facebook users today with the suspension of Scrabulous, the Scrabble knock-off that had created a huge following -- except among executives at Hasbro, which sued the site last week. As word spread that the game, run by two brothers in India, had been [...]

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Language learning online is picking up again. We already have sites like Mango Languages and LiveMocha which offer new interfaces on languages, and often social networking features. LingQ, offers vocabulary and grammar drills. Then in Europe you have FriendsAbroad, VoxSwap and the LearnItLists widget startup. Not to mention italki from [...]

Hasbro's lawsuit has shut down the popular Facebook Scrabble application Scrabulous, at least for US and Canada users. "If you try to pull up the popular game, you get the following message: 'Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like to stay informed [...]

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Facebook has shut down Scrabulous a week after Hasbro sued to block the copycat of its Scrabble word game.[...]