December 13th, 2011
Via Kevin’s Corner, an article on the potential of Facebook opening a platform to support internet gambling: Recently, I returned to San Francisco from a four week trip abroad(Nepal). Within several hours of my return I was confronted by a colleague telling me that Facebook was going to allow “real” gambling on its platform. I [...]
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October 8th, 2011
Via RateLasVegas, an interesting summary of MGM CEO Jim Murren’s keynote speech at this week’s G2E conference in Las Vegas that included some thoughts on the future of the company’s gaming operations online. “…Not a lot of groundbreaking news except for the fact that Murren alluded to new social programs or apps that he described [...]
Read more »September 28th, 2011
Via Kevin Flood, some interesting thoughts from the 2011 European Internet Gambling (EiG) conference: “…Social Networks – For years the I-gaming industry has dismissed or only partially entertained a relationship with social networks seeing the networks as at best, distantly related to their business and not a significant source of gaming revenue or player acquisition. [...]
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September 19th, 2011
Via RateLasVegas, some information about an interesting new company founded by Andrew Pascal, former COO and President of Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, focused on ‘social gaming’. While we have written about the likely socialization and virtualization of gambling in previous posts, this is a company that possibly may be taking it to heart. As [...]
Read more »August 20th, 2011
Via Knowledge@Wharton, several articles looking at gamification: “Knowledge@Wharton: Thanks to all of you for coming. I’d like to begin with a question about what gamification is and how it is relevant to business. Kevin, do you want to start? Kevin Werbach: Sure. I generally define gamification as the application of techniques or mechanisms from game [...]
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July 31st, 2011
Courtesy of Kevin’s Corner, an interesting look at what social and casual internet game companies can learn from online gambling: Recently I have published blog items primarily focused on educating online gambling operators on the virtues and threat of social games to their operations. In point of fact, I have been a bit unfair to [...]
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