ICE took place earlier this week and I had the opportunity to visit for the fourth year in a row. This year I could unfortunately only be in London for a single day, the thursday. It was a good visit with a short presentation about the future sportsbook interface as well as a few really promising [...]
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EGR Operator Awards by EGR Magazine takes place later this month and the shortlist for the mobile operator category are the following: Betfair mFortune mobile phone casino Paddy Power Rank Interactive (Blue Square) William Hill Online I’m especially interested in the mobile operator category for a number of reasons: Mobile gaming is the future way of [...]
Read moreWhere do online sportbooks put their bet slip? Is there a position that is the best? It seems that most online sportsbooks put it at the upper right side. Is this because it’s the best place to put it or is it because all their competitor put it there as well? Image 1. Sky Bet’s [...]
Read more888.com is a big player in the igaming industry and when you visit 888.com you get the feeling that it is a gaming portal offering casino, poker, sportsbook and more. Earlier last week after playing casino at 888.com I wanted to try out their poker. But I was really surprised to find out that I [...]
Read moreThe World Cup starts June 11th and the sports betting operators should be working hard to get their portals in the best shape possible! There are some that have some work to do to get there. Today I tried to search for bets on 8 different betting portals (Betfair, Betsafe, bwin, NordicBet, PaddyPower, PartyBets, Unibet [...]
Read moreLast month I wrote a blog post giving SkyBet a design advice (read the post here). And today when I tried going to SkyBet using my iPhone I noticed that they had implemented the solution I wrote about. My design advice back in September was “The second solution is just to transfer the user to the “skybet.mobi” [...]
Read moreSports betting is very popular and account for a big part of many gaming operators income. But the way people place bets online today is very similar. Is this because it is the optimal way to place bets or is everyone copying each other? I think improvements can be made since I’ve seen many players [...]
Read moreSky Bet last friday launched an sportsbook for their iPhone users together with mkodo. I think it is great that more and more products and services are optimized for the iPhone and the upcoming iPad. You can read more about that in my previous blog posts. Today Today when you type in skybet.mobi you come [...]
Read moreIn a month I’ll be able to sit on my couch watching soccer with my iPad and placing bets on the game. Apple’s iPad will soon go on sale in the US and later next month in some European countries. With the iPad there are new opportunities to give the user an experience better than just [...]
Read moreToday most gaming portals offer bingo, casino, games, poker and a sportsbook. Is this the best way? Look at Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and PartyGaming who promote brands for one kind of game. For instance players go to PokerStars to play poker, but when you go to for instance bwin, Unibet, Ladbrokes and many more gaming portals [...]
Read moreToday Svenska Spel launched an iPhone app where you can get results from matches and events. It is interesting and exciting to see that Svenska Spel are among the first operators to develop an iPhone app. You can see your current bets, but you can’t place any bets (probably because Apple wouldn’t allow it). I’ll use the [...]
Read moreGaming VC, an online gaming company with brands like Casino Club, Poker Kings and Betaland, said they will invest up to €7 million during 2010 to build the new businesses. The have hired former PartyGaming marketing chief Jon Salmon and former Sportingbet head of sportsbook Jim Humberstone for the expansion. It will be interesting to see if [...]
Read moreThis year’s International Gaming Expo (IGE), incorporating ICEi, is over and I’m back home. My reflections from the expo are mixed. Most positive: I was impressed by Net Entertainment and Betsoft’s games. The quality in their games is really good. It is especially interesting to see that Betsoft incorporate their controls as a part of the game. [...]
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