Scrabble Comes To Facebook, Way, Way Too Late

Scrabble is finally coming to Facebook this month. Of course, Facebook users have already been playing Scrabble for a long time -- they just haven't been playing an official version game. Instead they've been playing Scrabulous, the probably-not-that-legal clone that has more than 450,000 daily active users on the network.

Scrabble Comes To Facebook, Way, Way Too Late

This is an all-too familiar story: major content owner ("Scrabble") fears online distribution and holds back all online distribution. Meanwhile, consumers flock to an online faux-but-fun facsimile ("Scrabulous" on Facebook) while the giant slumbers. Finally, the giant caves and puts an "official" version online. Too late. Too lame.

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