Google Web Toolkit + Texas Holdem Poker = gpokr.com. I should probably be embarrassed about how much time I've spent in the last few weeks playing poker online for pretend money. As the site operator mentions in his
development blog, it seems to be the small things that make the site so sticky: elegant ajax design, players' rankings displayed and updated right next to their names at the table, a slew of player statistics presented on the main
ranking page, even more statistics and graphs on each
user page. (
Oh, and out of 5000 or so current players, I seem to be #1).
posted by nobody
on Aug 17, 2006 -
35 comments
The New York Times
reports that community forum sites like
Digital Point Solutions' have created a system whereby forum participants share in the Google AdSense revenue (
Revenue sharing FAQ). Digital Point claims that no gaming of the system has occurred so far. A google search turns up at least a
handful of
other sites that are doing the same (but no major sites, it seems), and the latest
drupal adsense module apparently makes it easy to set up. Curious.
[Full disclosure: I know nothing about any of this. I mean, I barely know what a 'blog is (and I'm sticking to that leading apostrophe -- it's the only thing standing between us and Babelian anarchy and we're not even sure 'Babelian' is a legitimate word so now we're really mired in the hypocrisy, huh?).]
posted by nobody
on Jan 16, 2006 -
9 comments
