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1). Golden Palace StreaksSex sells. And humor sells. Which is why Golden Palace has taken it upon itself to raise “streaking” – the unexpected (and therefore hilarious) interruption of public events by a naked person racing across the field or stage or arena – to a higher art form…oops, scratch that. What we meant to say is, “a more profitable advertising form.” And that they have done.
2). Choosing a Domain Name for Your Domain Hosting
Your domain hosting name is not something to be chosen lightly. Your domain hosting name is your front line in your branding campaign for your online business (or your offline business’s online presence). Careful consideration needs to go into choosing just the right domain hosting name to represent your business. The following are some key points to consider:
The Right Extension for the Right Site
Each type of site you want domain hosting for may serve a different market.
3). Doyles Room Spokesman Wins Cardplayer Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award
He's been called the Godfather of Poker. He's the Texas Dolly. He's won more tournaments than this writer has years to his name. He's written the seminal book on Texas Hold'em strategy. He's the spokesman of Doyles Room, one of the internet's most popular online poker rooms. His name is Doyle Brunson. And as of February 15, 2006, he's got another claim to fame.
4). Meet Team Ultimate Bet
Ultimate Bet Poker was developed for poker players by poker players -- and not just any poker players: the best! Or at least consistent contenders and periodic titleholders. Champions Russ Hamilton, Annie Duke, Phil Hellmuth, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott, and Jack McClelland started it all, to be joined later by equally impressive upstarts "Magic" Antonio Esfandiari, KrazyKanuck, John Vorhaus, and Roxy Rhodes.
5). Invasion of the Poker Bots: Is No Online Poker Room Safe?
They’re worse than poker sharks. They’ve taken over online poker rooms everywhere. In fact, they’re most likely sitting next to you at the table right now. They probably have most of your chips. Emotion doesn’t get in their way. Neither does greed, exhaustion, or fear. Their tells are nil and, try as you might, you cannot put them on tilt. They’re poker bots, and rumor has it, they’re fleecing you bare.
6). Top Online Casino Payout Rates
Most all top online casinos voluntarily subject themselves to regular audits (usually monthly) by a qualified and reputable third party firm, such as Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). These audits generally focus on two aspects of the online casino’s operations: their random number generator and their payout rates. The latter -- payout rates -- is the subject of this article.
7). What’s Up Full Tilt Poker’s Sleeve
So you’ve heard of FullTiltPoker dot com, perhaps you’ve even sat for a hand or two at one of Full Tilt Poker’s many tables. But have you heard of FullTiltPoker dot net? That’s right ".net", not ".com", and it’s amazing what a difference 3 letters can make.
Full Tilt Poker Dot Net is not a place to win other people’s money and (yipes!) maybe also lose a little of your own.
8). The New Party Poker
Online gaming sites are always changing -- upgrading software, improving features and functionality, getting rid of bugs and bad ideas, inventing new offerings, etc. -- all in a furious effort to remain competitive. A consistent leader of the online gambling pack, Party Poker, is often at the cutting edge of these new and improved releases. Not only.
9). Golden Palace Casino: Boldly Going Where No Online Casino Has Gone Before
Adding to a long list of unusual eBay listings, actor William Shatner (best known as Captain James T. Kirk on television's Star Trek) sold the kidney stone he passed back in August 2005 to Golden Palace Casino Online Casino. Golden Palace Casino paid $25,000 for the iconic former Captain of the Starship Enterprise's organ, the funds promptly rerouted to the charity Habitat For Humanity, which helps build houses for low income families.
10). Mac Lovers Wild Over FullTilt Poker
FullTilt Poker has just gotten fuller.
Let's face it: PokerRoom.com notwithstanding, there aren't many sites where Mac users can enjoy a good, live game of multiplayer poker. For the most part, Mac users have had to settle for Flash or Java-based "No Download" versions (also called "Lite" versions, for predictable reasons) of their main PC-only poker room.
11). Traffic: Let Your Web Hosting Company Be Your Guide
Presumably you have a website because you want people to visit it. Visitors are traffic. And generating a constant flow of fresh traffic, both unique and repeat visitors, will take up more of your energies than probably any other website-related task, including website maintenance and sales. It is with this imperative in mind that web hosting companies have begun offering their customers assistance in generating that traffic.
12). Web Hosting Scams – What Some Web Hosting Providers Aren’t Telling You
It’s hard to separate fact from fiction in advertising, and certainly no less so when dealing with web hosting providers. Bold, broad-sweeping claims are endlessly repeated in a shameless effort to keep you from reading the fine print. In an age where it seems there are almost as many web hosting providers as there are websites to be hosted, competition is fierce, and competing web hosting providers will say almost anything to get you to sign up with them.
13). Decoding Web Hosting Reviews, Part II: From Java to Windows
In an earlier article, we explained how web hosting reviews identify web hosting companies by the services they offer. So if a web host offers ASP technology, they say it's an ASP hosting company. With that in mind, in this two-part series we've laid out many of the most common types of web hosting services you'll read about in the web hosting reviews you peruse.
14). How to Read an Online Poker Review: Part 1 of 2
There are plenty of online poker review sites out there (including our review portal Poker-Ranking.com), each giving you their take on the numerous poker rooms circulating the internet. Below we’ll begin the process of breaking down for you our own online poker review template so you can learn what to look for when seeking out your next online poker room.
15). How to Read an Online Casino Review
There are quite an overwhelming number of online casino review sites out there. Each online casino reviewer gives you his or her assessment of the torrent of online casinos courting your participation. In this article, we will use our own online casino review template as an example to detail what you'll want to look for when trying to find the right online casino for you.
16). A Guided Tour of an Online Casino Directory
Using the comprehensive online casino directory CasinoBrain as our guide, we will lay out in this article the features you should expect from a high quality online casino directory.
Top Lists
In all their catchy, short attention span suiting, bottom-line giving glory. A good online casino directory will cut straight to the bone and save you the trouble of sifting through the reviews their writer-players so tirelessly toiled over.
17). Bonus Hunting: An Online Casino Gambling Sure Thing?
Most online casino gambling aficionados play hard and they play to win. But there’s an alternate strategy (no, not to lose – that would be silly!): a strategy more conservative, more demanding of discipline, as well as of considerable more questionable merit than straightforward online casino gambling, but with significantly higher odds of a player walking away from the (computer) tables with more dough than he or she started with.
18). Betting Systems for Online Casino Gamblers
In this article, we'll explain 6 popular betting systems that you can experiment with in your online casino gaming experience. Truth be told, these timeless, tried and true betting systems originated in the world of offline betting, but they apply equally as well to online casino gambling, no matter what the game, no matter what the betting structure.
19). The Pros & Cons of Hosting-It-Yourself
What you need to know before you decide to run your own server
We're fond advocates of the DIY (do it yourself) mentality. So you won't find us dissuading you from taking the reins of your internet presence fully and hosting your website yourself on your own server, if that's what you want and are prepared to do. Consider this checklist-cum-article your minimal preparation.
20). Best Online Casinos and Bonuses
After reviewing scads of online casino sites, we've started to get a real clear idea of what players are looking for in a site. The best online casinos offer a variety of gameplay (different types of slots, blackjack, roulette, etc.), a clean and intuitive lobby with ample stats, and a secure cashier with reliable payouts.
Oh, and one other thing: freebies.
21). Even a Cheap Hosting Company Can Help You Build a Website
It's no secret: the internet is the place to be. And there is no shortage of web hosting companies out there -- cheap hosting or otherwise -- all vying for the scads of business flocking to the internet to grab their share of the pie. You might say it's a Buyer's Market. eMerchants of all kinds know that consumers are all bargain hunters and as our appetites grow fatter and our palates grow wiser, we demand more and more from the companies that serve us at less and less of a cost to us.
22). How to Read an Online Poker Review: Part 2 of 2
In part 1 of this 2 part series, we began to lay out for you exactly what online poker reviewers look for when evaluating an online poker room, using the poker review template from our own poker portal at Poker-Ranking.com.
In part 1, we explained in depth the following sections: Software and Graphics, Game Variation and Limits, and Traffic. In this concluding article, we will delve into what information is contained in the rest of the sections of a typical online poker review.
23). Consumers, Legislators, and Internet Service and Hosting Providers Wage War On Spam
Nobody likes it. It’s a wonder anybody still does it. It’s what makes some people so leery of ever embracing email and it’s what has lead to so many others opening up secondary, “junk” email accounts. As such, it’s also the bane of ISPs and hosting providers everywhere. As of the writing of this article, spam has constituted almost 50% of the content of people’s email inboxes and internet users, ISPs, and hosting providers have just about had enough.
24). Online Casino Games for Charity
The idea of it throws the whole concept of gambling on its ear; funny thing is, it looks dashing that way. Playing online casino games only to give your winnings away to charity is not without precedent.
Long before online casino game rooms adopted the practice, Barry Greenstein was making a name for himself doing just that: raking in the pots in mostly Texas Hold’em poker games and distributing the money to places like Children Incorporated, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, ILoveSchools.
25). Decoding Web Hosting Reviews, Part I: ASP to FrontPage
Web hosts come under many names: ASP Hosting, Cold Fusion Hosting, Java Hosting, PHP Hosting; and as such, so must web hosting reviews. When scouring the various web hosting reviews in print and on the internet to help find the web host that most addresses your specific and unique needs, you’ll come across many of these “names”, these specialized types of web hosting products.
26). Hosting Service Providers and Identity Theft
My Hosting Service, My Security Service: How much protection does your web host give you from identity theft...and how much can they?
There are laws now that protect us from identity thieves, sure, but oftentimes, by the time the law gets involved, the damage is already done. Your website may be defaced. Your name may be sullied. Your hosting service may have locked you out.
27). Strange But True Online Poker Tales
Worst Bet Ever: Here’s a case in point for self-control at the online poker tables if ever we heard one. In December ’05, one Carl Valentine agreed to what, on the surface, appeared a modest enough challenge, presented by a multi-millionaire buddy of his. The challenge was this: that by April 18, ’06 he, Valentine, send 2 million unique visitors to a website they perversely named savemyfinger.