links for 2008-07-30

by Brian Reich | 30 Jul 2008, 2:00am

• Facebook shuts off Scrabulous after Hasbro sues (Los Angeles Times)
  Boo! Facebook Inc., the owner of the biggest U.S. social-networking site, shut down the online word game Scrabulous in the U.S. and Canada after a lawsuit was filed by Hasbro Inc., the maker of Scrabble.
• Are You A Text Walker? (Chicago Tribune)
  Under the proposed law, Illinois residents would get slapped with a misdemeanor and a $25 fine if caught using a cell phone or other wireless device while traversing streets. You’ve got to be kidding me.
• Children Targets of $1.6 Billion in Food Ads (Washington Post)
  One in three children in this country are overweight. But, until now, it was unclear how much the nation’s largest food and beverage companies spent influencing kids to eat unhealthy foods. Now it is VERY clear.
• SoCal earthquake has everyone a-Twitter (Los Angeles Times)
  Twitter was first on the scene again when an estimated 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck near Los Angeles yesterday — exactly as it was designed to do. Let the learning begin!
• 5 Ways Barack Obama Could Announce his Vice President Pick Via Social Media
  Good expectations setting post from Ogilvy.

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