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Some people like to work with their hands: http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2009...

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Fascinating what some people do ! - bellegarde-webb

great! usually those don't come up when one thinks what can be done using hands. nice - ffcode

I hear many Google stories, but this one is still pretty incredible. Daughter finds dad via Google: http://www.momlogic.com/2009...

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@joshuaseo really? Wow.

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Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

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I don't get it. People actually pay for points on their games? - Piaw Na

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Piaw - it's a trade of money for time. - Andrew C

BTW, I had no idea the scams were this bad. I have friends who work at some of the "bad" gaming companies named here. - Andrew C

Maybe this is part of the reason that Apple is so restrictive about iPhone apps. - Robert Felty

Robert, Apple's review process can't discover apps that do this -- they can't tell whether the ad unit that shows a legitimate ad during the review process suddenly starts showing scammy lead-gen a week later. I'd look at it a different way: scammy lead-gen shows up everywhere that content providers don't attach value to having a satisfied user (email spam, search engine spam, etc.). The best way for FB to avoid this is to make their platform useful for nontrivial app authors. Looks like they're trying... - Daniel Dulitz

Good point Daniel. It seems like it is a pretty difficult thing to police. Maybe they could create a blacklist of advertisers. - Robert Felty

Its not always the advertisers, its how the offers are presented. Tatto Media suggested we block people from seeing more than 3 articles on our site without forcing the user to fill out an offer of their choice. Of course we didn't implement this and it wouldn't drive the user experience we are looking for. - Matt Ellsworth

Wow--thanks for all the great Las Vegas suggestions, everyone! That's a full slate of ideas to try! :)

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Apple announces 100K apps http://www.apple.com/pr... (congrats!) But anyone could generate 100K+ apps for Android programmatically.

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There are already a lot of apps in android - and a whole lot of terrible ones, i'm sure the ratio is the same - Matt Ellsworth

Suppose we wanted an old Cray supercomputer for our office. Does anyone have one lying around?

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The old round ones would make great circular benches :) - Joel Webber

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ebay ? [edited] ...none on ebay , grooan :-( - Luca Perencin ( No_CQRT )

Little known fact: The circular "bench seats" at the bottom of them are power transformers. They were covered with plywood which was then covered with naugahyde. - Otto

no... but it would be a very cool idea - Matt Ellsworth

I'll be in Vegas next week w/my wife for vacation + PubCon. What must-see activities, restaurants, or shows should we hit in Las Vegas?

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Any suggestions from FFers? - Matt Cutts

Pirates of Treasure Island, Downtown Fremont Street Experience - Amit Nangare

Phantom was pretty good, Blue man group is great, hotel wise we loved the palazzo / venetian. - Matt Ellsworth

I wonder whether I should go with a mini-mohawk for #pubcon.. :)

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.@davewiner regarding http://www.scripting.com/stories... the prereq would be to know your blog. U can register it at http://www.google.com/webmast...

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@davewiner a lot of people like Twidroid as the Android client for Twitter. See also http://www.pcworld.com/article... for more apps.

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@davewiner good point--agreed on need for an independent Android conference. Google I/O is a great place to learn too.

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Did you know Google News lets you define custom categories? http://news.google.com/news... This has been one of my secret power tools.

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Matt, I really thank you so much for sharing this Google News. I like it very very very much after I've lost my SideWiki. - Michael Dadona

Thanks for the news tip Matt.. very nice!! - Chris Myles

Are there any rules for embedding news in a widget or iframe from another site? - Mark Essel from iPhone

@jeffjarvis "Netflix-like" is right. If a Netflix person had 20% time, they could do it. They know postal kung-fu. :)

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@dannysullivan the Android phones coming out are seriously tempting me. I wish there were a spot to try all the Android phones in one spot.

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If you're a web developer, you'll want to check out the new Closure web tools that Google released: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...

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Very impressive. My first test of Closure here: http://u.go2.me/3WK - Mike Koss

If U R a programmer with an Android phone, check out ASE: http://code.google.com/p... lets you script Android with e.g. Python, Lua

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I don't think you can script the bluetooth interface yet, but you can write a bar code scanner for Android in 6 lines of Python: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog... - Matt Cutts

@laurenweinstein P.S. saw that in action where Android Scripting Environment puts e.g. Python interpreter on SD card.

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@davewiner also, it's wild to copy songs to a phone just as if it were a hard drive, right? That's the way it should be.

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I don't which I like better: @arrington's ode to the Droid at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... or him cleaning house on scuzzy offers

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@laurenweinstein I'll pass it on, but I'm sure the team has heard that feedback. I don't know what the skinny is on that though.

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@yoast congratulations--that's great news!

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@jennita a bot like that would be fun, but there's also a wide variety of people who send me heads-ups about things. :)

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@davewiner I highly recommend Listen for catching podcasts on Android: http://listen.googlelabs.com/

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@brucecat that seems like a much healthier way to fight. I still have the scars on my scalp from my brother and I fighting growing up. :)

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This video of a Korean baseball fight made my day a little bit: http://thedugoutdoctors.com/2009...

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@LisaBarone naw. Can't a guy just happen to be surfing around the net and by complete coincidence see that reference?

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Live in NYC? Check out the new subway maps: http://maps.google.com/maps... To activate, click More->Transit on Maps.