As the dust settles after Zynga’s purchase of New York mobile social game developer OMGPOP, the company is visibly taking on a new shape. A 25% larger and more mobile one. That’s the percentage growth of its total daily active user base , when you add in the 14.6 million people playing mobile sketching app Draw Something to its existing 55 million players.

Editor’s note: Jon Sterling has been in the real estate business since 2002. Follow him on Twitter @mistersterling . Have you been searching for a place to live in San Francisco lately? You’re not the only one thinking @$#%&! on a daily basis.

Who throws a party in Palo Alto?! Well actually … Today Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors , Talenthouse , Super Happy Dev House and the City of Palo Alto itself have joined forces to give nerds a place to play on University Ave for 12 hours. So why should you stop coding and jump on Super Happy Block Party bandwagon

Editor’s note: Guest contributor Joseph Puopolo is an entrepreneur and startup enthusiast, who blogs on a variety of topics including green initiatives, technology and marketing.

Editor’s note: Tim Chang is a managing director at Mayfield Fund . This is the second in a three-part series about the Quantified Self movement. Follow Tim on Twitter @timechange

The  Inside Network Job Board  is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the  Inside Network Job Board , including positions at: Spruce Media ,  Shutterstock Images ,  W3i ,  OfferPop ,  International Business Times , Rebel Entertainment ,  PopCap , SponsorPay , MachineZone , Bally Technology , CheckPoint Studios , PT Gaming , Legacy Games , High 5 Games , SpeedDate.com , King.com , East Side Games , SoJo Studios and BrightRoll

We know that many of you visit TechCrunch on the regular for a hearty dose of startup coverage, general tech news and opinionated coverage of the tech zeitgeist. But we also know that the trainwreck posting on our hirings and firings, Aol spats, tech gossip and quibbles between staff is what really gets your fingers clicking and blood boiling. I mean, it’s like a car accident, you can’t help but stare.

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Rob La Gesse, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — rode out of Dodge and straight into an ambush. Well, no, but in service of the OverAggregator Lord here are our talking points: Microsoft trembles at the alter of irrelevance, Google doesn’t get TV but may sneak into the tablet market by giving them away, and HTML5 still can’t get a date.

I’d like to be an optimist, like Matt Burns . I really would. Like Research In Motion itself, I was born and raised in Waterloo, Ontario.

In part II of his Founder Stories interview with host  Chris Dixon , Kayak.com’s co-founder Paul English  discusses why job applicants will be hard pressed to find job postings on Kayak.com, relays the lessons he learned from Kayak’s mobile app and tells Dixon the traits founding teams need to possess in order to impress him as an angel investor. Having helped grow the company to roughly 150 employees, English says Kayak is somewhat unorthodox when it comes to hiring talent.