Poker 2.0 News

Social networks are opened almost daily. One of them survive through years while others die or is lefto in agony for some time. Actually I do not know if ChipSociety will stand against its powerful competitors. So far it seems to have only fake members and 0 blogs. Even admin does not write here, so who will be the first? ;) Quite nice features are not used well. For example CHipSociety has got internal groops by brand fans and events. They can be helpful for lots of members, but when I see 50 members it is obvious, that there is nothiung to do in any of the groups. How the situation can be changed? Just hard work gathering some members. I would organize a few contests with a possibility to win $50 for best comment, blog and most active week in groups. Some people would take that chance to earn some mone. Others who come in accidentaly will immediately notice, that this poker social network is active and would register. Also there should be some announcements in social media, as...

Can it be so bad to one of holy gaming trinity members, that executives decided to dive into online poker world? It seems it can. SEGA just opened it’s own online poker site SEGApoker.com (also casino games site SEGAcasino.com). Present players can login with SEGA Pass or register a new user account. Guess what platform they use? Not too hard to guess because it is a skin of Playtech (other rooms – TitanPoker, TonyGPoker, Bet365, Hollywood Poker and many others). When Xbox will start its own poker room following SEGA’s example? No idea. Anyway the famous brand and connectivity using gaming platform’s social application guarantee huge activity. Proved by friendship between Xbox and Facebook connect. If you have SEGA Pass, please try their poker room as well. It is 3rd biggest real money poker operator in the World.

We have one more Poker 2.0 tool on the web – poker news social aggregator atpoker.com . What social news aggregators usually do? They take some trustworthy news feeds and adds some categories, tags to them. Also they works as social bookmarking sites where registered users can submit their own RSS feeds or single articles. In order to be more social, the user rating system is introduced, so most voted articles go up in the list. atPoker.com seems to be developed like this kind of social tool. I did not find any widget which could be customized and added to any blog or site, however they have RSS feeds by category available. I wish very good luck to the creators of this site in fierce competition battle with PokerBlips, RoundersBuzz and PokerUpp (please let me know if there are more competitors in poker social bookmarking market).

When I have been doing the investigation of GOOD quality poker blogs by pros I had lots of troubles finding them. The poker room blog situation is better as more and more serious poker rooms do the social media research and start their own professional blog. I am very glad, so are the readers and players, because reading about newest promotion is soooo boring. Let’s congratulate PokerTime with the launch of new professional Blog called MyPokerTime . The blog writes about various interesting poker issues, including news from sponsored poker pros. Hopefully it will keep that way and will not become like Poker770 blog – the promotion news only.

Major poker rooms have and had a short names since years. Full Tillt is called FT; PokerStars – PS, PartyPoker – PP. UltimateBet was always called UB. It became so popular that management of UltimateBet decided to change the name and the logo from UltimateBet to UB.com . With the new logo they should develop a cool social media presence. Also the URL is so short that can beat any popular URL shortener. So far ub.com redirects to ultimatebet.com, so all the changes will be in the nearest future. What else social media guru (definitely he is the best among poker players) Joe Sebok can do?

I wish every blog could have such fate - getting domain and having own design. Yes, I am moving to another domain and will continue from there. As you may noticed my Twitter account @poker_2_0 , I have a new professionally made logo (thanks to my designer Toma; she made a great work!) which contains web 2.0 style and colors. I still have not decided what to do with all my posts, so so far I left them here. From now on all the blogs will be written in another Poker 2.0 version: www.OnlinePoker20.com Please remember it in case you will get to the error page or something. Also i am going for vacation, so will be back only in July. Turkey, Marmaris, I am coming! ;)