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 [...]
Read moreThis year’s IGE is just a few weeks away and I’m starting to get excited about the event. It will be great to find out what will be the next big things in the igaming industry this year. I believe the following topics (among others) will be very important for igaming companies this year: personalisation social [...]
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Read moreWhy do we play poker on Internet? From my experience there are at least four major reasons. The four reasons: Get recognition Win money For entertainment Spend time with friends Get recognition A good poker player wants to recognised for his skills. Players can be recoginised in many different ways. Both by the poker site [...]
Read moreImage 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 [...]
Read moreImage 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 [...]
Read moreEver played poker on Facebook? Or on your iPhone? Maybe on MySpace? Or on Yahoo? Then you probably have played on Zynga Poker. Zynga Poker is a social poker community where you don’t play for real money. But they are doing something right. Right now they have 284,740 players online. Online poker gaming business can [...]
Read moreI attended EiG Expo this week and listened to many of the sessions, here are my reflections from the week. Multiplayer and social games: Monetising the communities by Jörgen Larsson, Founder, AhaBingo, Playzeek, onGolf and esn. The talk pointed out that you should use viral marketing insted of spending money on marketing. You should also make [...]
Read moreThe first panel session at EIG Expo talked about the future and what trends they see. The main areas were: innovation entertainment mobile social media (voted as the trend that would have the biggest impact on the online gambling) user experience (understanding the customer was voted the most important key factor to succeed in the [...]
Read moreImage 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. [...]
Read moreI 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 [...]
Read moreImage by Markus Angermeier Web 2.0 has been a buzz word for a few years now. But yet we haven’t seen many gaming portals adapting web 2.0 technologies. Why is that? But first, what is Web 2.0? According to Wikipedia “Web 2.0” refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It [...]
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