WWD Coffee Break – DWT, Twitter via IM, and Scrabulous

DWT Considered Harmful – According to the Washington Post, Virginia and Maryland are among the most recent states to be considering legislation banning DWT – that’s Driving While Texting for those of you who haven’t been following along at home. With 20 percent of all drivers texting (according to Nationwide Mutual Insurance), this has the potential to be a hugely unpopular law. On the other hand, none of us really wants to be crunched by some teen sending inscrutable messages, no matter how attached we are to our Blackberries.

Of course, banning DWT is just the tip of the iceberg; more and more states are starting to restrict cel phone usage for drivers as well. We may be moving towards a society where mobile professionals need to recognize that drive time is not in fact surrogate office time – or else rely more on taxis and less on rental cars.

IM it to Twitter – Twitter itself has jabber integration, but TwitterIM adds MSN Messenger and ICQ to the list of supported clients. Just add their bots to your buddy list and you can get two-way integration, complete with automatic TinyURL replacement and the ability to retrieve your direct messages.

Hasbro Cracks Down – Now that Scrabulous is getting a metric boatload of daily page views on Facebook, Hasbro has lawyered up to protect their intellectual property. While this will certainly be an unpopular move for many addicts of the online Scrabble clone, there’s a lesson here for web workers: you ignore IP law at your peril. Maybe the Scrabulous guys did need an attorney after all.

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