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Earmarks 10 Oct 2009 | 07:29 am
Todays usa today reports that despite obama's pledge to reduce earmarks to below $7.8b (where they were before bush), they will still hit $19b. They include F22 jets the pentagon doesn't want! $2m for...
you know you're a little cool when... 10 Sep 2009 | 02:26 pm
kevin rose of diggnation covers your game! well, he actually said he lost geek cred by even mentioning, but check out minute 35ish and on where he covers farmville...
finally! getting to a common term sheet on series A funding 25 Aug 2009 | 12:39 am
this has become a big topic in the past week with fred's post and now a techcrunch story. also, thx to adeo ressi for all his great work with the funded and the entrepreneur foundation to help spur mo...
Game downtime 6 Aug 2009 | 11:24 pm
Fyi, facebook is experiencing network outages which have taken all our games down intermittently all morning. Sorry to anyone missing their morning fix.
US govt deal making is a race to the bottom 2 Jul 2009 | 09:01 am
Its been painful to watch our democrat led govt turn into a free money feeding frenzy. Todays nytimes reports that in order to pass the climate change bill lawmakers doled out billions in gifts to eac...
Zynga customer support - catching up 25 Jun 2009 | 11:59 pm
I'm happy to report that zynga is now handling all cs tix within 72 hrs. Our team has worked hard to keep up with the growth in our game userbase. Zynga now has nearly 200 cs reps across 3 continents....
Who's managing our money? 18 Jun 2009 | 10:52 pm
The govt running gm is like wolves tending the sheep herd. Great npr piece on all the ways congressmen are interfering with gm mgt's efforts to reduce costs.
Zynga players 14 Jun 2009 | 12:00 am
Zynga has recently banned many players across its games for bad actions like chip hacking and selling. If you believe you have been unfairly banned pls email chris hinton, chrish@zynga.com with a link...
Dealing with with game hackers 13 Jun 2009 | 01:02 am
Zynga has taken some massive actions this week to protect our users from in game hackers. if you feel you have been wrongly banned from our games go to our customer support and they will verify your a...
Web 3 - the whole world will be a game 10 Jun 2009 | 02:27 am
All web services will eventually look and feel like games. Users will gravitate to the 'funnest' ecommerce or other sites. Game mex will be the most valuable skillset for web content and commerce.
