Don’t Mess with Mr. Potato Head

It’s not a pretty scene in Candyland today. Hasbro, whose 2006 revenues of $3.1 billion make it the second largest toymaker in the world, called in the lawyers today. Seems they’re a little ticked that 2.3 million people have been playing Scrabble knock-off, “Scrabulous”on Facebook.

I’m surprised that it took this long.

Josh Quittner of Techland asks if Hasbro isn’t over reacting, that they’re missing an opportunity.

I don’t know, and I haven’t done any research on the copyright law, but I can’t believe that application developers or Facebook can be that surprised. Perhaps they decided to just go with it until somebody noticed.

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Am I Buying What Nike Is Selling?

According to Money Magazine – Nike is introducing a “green” version of the Air Jordan XX3.  Apparently, the manufacturing process reduces chemicals and waste. 

(read : Nike’s clean Air Jordans)

Although I’ll always applaud any company for taking any step towards a greener future, but the reduced toxins in the air don’t take away the bad taste in my mouth when I think of what life is like in a Nike Factory. 

Am I wrong?  Has Nike done enough to straighten up it’s act?  Or should this “green” product be white – as in whitewash. 

MySpace Keeps the Heat on Facebook

Ever since Microsoft bought into Facebook, all anyone’s been talking about has been Facebook, Facebook, Facebook. Myspace has been the “Jan” of the social networking family, but I think Jan’s braces may be coming off.

According to USA Today:

“Celebrities have a new home on one of the Internet’s most popular social networking sites.

MySpace launches its Celebrity Channel today (celebrity .myspace.com), a move that will allow the site’s 110 million users virtual one-stop access to the personal pages and blogs of more than 300 actors, musicians, athletes and other high-profile types.”

My whole argument with social networking revolves around the fact that people only have so much time. So yes, we all love social networking, but we can’t be spread around 27 sites trying to hang out with everyone. That’s why I believe, that after we are swimming in an ocean of social networking sites, most will drop to the side while we all migrate to one or two sites.

Having all these celebrity blogs could definitely start fingers typing myspace.com  again.  It will be interesting to see how many celebrities take the bait.

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