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Zynga CEO Marc Pincus sat in the Red Orthodontist Chair of Death at the D10 conference this morning. A lot of his conversation with All Thing D’s Kara Swisher was about his company’s recent stock offering and the Facebook IPO.

I know—stock talk at a Wall Street Journal conference? Impossible! (Maybe it’s me, or maybe it’s the fact that I am not allowed to invest in technology stocks, but I find technology stock talk to be a complete snooze. The products that regular people can buy and use are where it’s at.)

Anyway, I digress. Swisher and Pincus did end up talking about Zynga’s products and strategy. And while the company’s strategy in getting people to spend real money on putatively free games gives me the cold pricklies, you can’t deny its success.

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