Image 1. Zynga’s Facebook App Poker Blitz.
Last week Zynga launched a new game on Facebook called Poker Blitz. It is a poker game that have many cool features, features I’m missing on poker sites today.
They have a “Weekly Team Challenge” where you get “cash” depending on how you and your team mates play the game, but you also get points depending on how well you play. When you get enough points then you are promoted to the next level with the possibility to play different games.
I wrote a blog post, …

Image 1. Top 25 Facebook games in October. (by InsideSocialGames.com)
Games played on Facebook have a large user base and I believe it is because of their social features. Letting players play inside Facebook and/or on their iPhone insted of having to go play on a portal is the key.
For instance Zynga’s poker have more than 17 million active players, an increase with over 3 million compared to last month.
I’ve said it in many blog posts before but I’ll say it again :) It is time for operators and gaming developers …

Image 1. A winner’s alert.
Let players post results on their social networks!
Why not let your players be your marketing people? One way of doing this is to make it possible for them to post results on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social networks. By doing so friends there will read about it and your gaming portal!
In the image above you see one example of how this could be done. You only need to associate the player account with their accounts on social networks.
I hope we will see more social feature integrated …

Image 1. Registration dialogue using social media
Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect are two ways in which you today can add social content to your gaming portal and you can also use it to publish information on social networks.
I believe that we will see this on gaming portals within a year or so.
It will be especially good when players can user their Facebook (or other social network accounts) to register and login to your gaming portal. They only have to remember one login and the player can allow you to …

I follow PokerHeaven on Twitter and today they send the following:
“Don’t forget to sign-up for tonight’s €500 Facebook Freeroll at 18:30 GMT. All the details can be found here -> http://bit.ly/CgBNh“.
To be able to participate in the Freeroll you have to join their Facebook group. This is a great way of using different social media to find new players and also make current players more active.
The only thing that bothers me is that when going to their portal it is very hard to find the information about the Freeroll there. You …