Facebook Asked To Remove Scrabulous

January 16th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Although I haven’t seen any figures for the amount of revenue that popular Facebook apps are making, I’m sure there are some serious cashcows out there. One that undoubtedly was making money was Scrabulous, which is based on the popular Scrabble game. Scrabulous is rumoured to be making the owners $25k a month, with over 500k users per day.

That may all come to an end soon. Lawyers for Hasbro and Mattel, who between them own the worldwide rights to Scrabble, have asked Facebook to remove the game claiming that it infringes on their copyright.

Occasionally in my spare time I’ve been trying to coming up with ideas for Facebook apps. This was triggered by an IM from Ibrahim asking for ideas, as he was going to try building a few apps. The Facebook API apparently is quite easy to utilise, so my ‘plan’ is to hire a freelancer to produce an app, once I come up with my killer idea.

Obviously, producing a copy of a popular board game is now not a good option….. ;-) Does anybody else have any good ideas for a Facebook app?

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Grace on 17 January 2008:

    Facebook apps are definitely worth investing on. Facebook receives A LOT of signups per day, and since you already have a readership, your advertising is one step ahead already. Good luck!

  2. #2

    Comment by Sandy on 17 January 2008:

    I don’t like Facebook :(

  3. #3

    Comment by Micah on 18 January 2008:

    No good ideas, just ideas that someone else is already doing. :(

  4. #4

    Comment by Joseph Plazo on 18 January 2008:

    I’m swamped with the facebook apps! Like Myspace, this place had gotten a tad to hectic for me.

  5. #5

    Comment by rutherford on 18 January 2008:

    What about Battleships? It’s a lovely game… and I don’t think there’s copyright on it

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