Scrabble makes a comeback, on Facebook


	Scrabble makes a comeback, on Facebook

conquest

8-9-2007 5:41 AM

374 views

tags:

word games, internet, facebook

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

The Noble Eightfold Path

Palin Must Condemn Hateful Obama Attacks.

Jihad-as commonly understood-not truly Islam

Now This Would Make for an Interesting Sho...

save our words

The rival to the Bible

More clips from conquest

Cows diet changed to reduce greenhouse gas

would you give away your passwords for a b...

Her partner can hinder childbirth

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from August 9, 2007

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9444611c-3810-4d35-afe0-18e311036ee6/09C47A12-8BC9-450D-97A3-BFE377EBB0ED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/09/nosplit/ftscrabble109.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/09/nosplit/ftscrabble109.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/09/nosplit/ftscrabble109.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100">The world-famous word game is having a surge in popularity thanks to the website Facebook. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/09/nosplit/ftscrabble109.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/80BCEAB1-C7FD-4E2E-9C02-8D66D16E66DB" alt="Couple playing scrabble" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/09/nosplit/ftscrabble109.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100"><P class="story2"> Every now and again, an email will ping into my inbox. This email will be from the novelist Jenny Colgan, and its subject line will be something along the lines of "Give me an 'S'… Give me a 'C'… Give me an 'R'…", and it will cause my heart to leap with joy. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/09/nosplit/ftscrabble109.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100"><P class="story2">For it will presage an evening of red wine, takeaway pizza and intimate relaxation with a handful of like-minded friends in her discreet Fleet Street flat. We might chew qat until we get xi. Those of us with an ax to grind will do so, ideally in two directions. Others work on the flow of their qi. Sometimes, someone will show us his SOWPODS. Oh yeah. You know what I'm talking about.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/08/09/nosplit/ftscrabble109.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100"><P class="story2">Not so. Cyber-scrabble is on the march. Only two months after the launch on the social networking site Facebook of an application called Scrabulous - which allows you to play with your friends online - 200,000 people are reported to have signed up.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/09C47A12-8BC9-450D-97A3-BFE377EBB0ED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from conquest

Today's Top Clips