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"It appears that RealNetworks may be looking to purchase Scrabulous, the much-loved Scrabble clone that was the favorite app amongst Facebook employess mere months ago.\nAccording to a comment made by Om Malik of GigaOM (in response to a New York Times story published today), RealNetworks seems to be offering the impression that it wants to take a stab at bringing some form of Scrabble - an officially-sanction version, of course - online. Om has thus determined that the company may then in fact be looking to purchase the ready-made app (turned Facebook sensation) assembled last year by two brothers, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, located in Calcutta, India.\nThough Bill Hankes, VP of Corporate Communications at RealNetworks, has only sent some coy emails to Mr Malik vaguely hinting at the possibility of a Scrabulous purchase, it would certainly give RealNetworks a quick-and-easy entry into the social gaming scene on the Web and a surefire hit right from the get-go.  It would certainly win them some major Brownie points with Facebook users, all of whom were forced to endure the take-down of the network-version of the game. The resulting backlash from Facebookers was fairly intense, and even inspired the establishment of a protest group and even the production of a mocking music video.\nAt this point, the subliminal revelation by RealNetworks carries with it strong notes of rumorism and conjecture, but it certainly looks like there may be an ounce of truth to it.  Hold on Scrabulous fans. Your game may soon return back to its former glory."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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