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<title>US govt deal making is a race to the bottom</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
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<title>Zynga customer support - catching up</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-25T08:59:38-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Who's managing our money?</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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.<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-18T07:52:47-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Zynga players</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-13T09:00:52-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Dealing with with game hackers</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-12T10:02:03-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Web 3 - the whole world will be a game</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[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.<br/>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why isn't there an app that tells me question types for various positions and then let's me benchmark answers in relative and absolute terms? It could propose simple to hard verbal math problems for...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-06-05T08:31:36-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-05-31T18:06:00-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Web 3.0 snippets - I</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[We have entered the third business plan of the web. Web 1.0 was about aggregating online audiences. The currency was eye balls measured in page views. This business was banner ads and ecommerce. Web...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-05-31T11:53:47-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Fw: My Supreme Court nominee</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Obama is using brilliant web marketing post campaign to keep taking his msg direct to the people. Feels like the days of web based democracy are getting closer by the email. Love this. Go obama!...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-05-26T18:57:14-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-05-16T10:52:49-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>One happy user!</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Compute: Back up ... Zynga update ... data recovery ... more Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 16:46. By JAMES DERK, Scripps Howard News Service Science and Tech Q. What happened with Zynga?...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-05-14T10:34:36-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Iphone games can fill our nooks and crannies of useless minutes</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[A lot of people say they don't have time for games. I think they really mean they are too busy at work to play games. Iphones have the potential to let us fill our nooks and crannies of time. These...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-05-10T19:33:49-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Yo supports sf spca</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Proud that zynga's yoville community raised $20k for the sf spca selling spca branded dogs.<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-05-09T21:40:14-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>zynga is searching for world class product managers</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[if you have great experience either in software product management or a super analytical position at a top i-bank or consulting firm pls send us your resume. www.zynga.com<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-05-06T17:53:01-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>pleasing all 45 million customers all the time</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I ran across a blog this week that I wanted to comment on. In it, James Derk, a columnist for Scripps Howard News Service, detailed some negative experiences he had with Zynga customer service (...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-04-30T10:29:21-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Proud and ashamed</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm proud to read today that obama had the courage and strength of leadership to force the disclosure of america's recent torture of suspected terrorists. At the same time I'm ashamed to be a citizen...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-04-17T09:13:58-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Zynga network outage today</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear faithful zynga game players, We are experiencing a severe outage today. My understanding is that someone sabotaged att's network by cutting fiber circuits. I'm sorry for any service outages...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-04-10T11:50:53-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Yoville problems</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[We have gotten complaints from users who can't login to yoville and get a blank screen. Pls email chrish@zynga.com. Sorry for your problems.<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-04-05T10:02:19-07:00</dc:date>
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<title>Zynga customer service</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some people have posted complaints to this blog about problems with zynga games and customer support. Zynga has 30 people in cs supporting 8.5 million daily users with a goal of 48 hour response...<br/>
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<dc:creator>mark pincus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2009-04-04T12:42:52-07:00</dc:date>
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