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Hi. Lately skill games have become very popular. Taking into consideration the word “skill” you can easily imagine the general idea of this kind of games. Let us make a little investigation.

So, a game of skill is a game where the outcome is determined mainly by mental and/or physical skill, rather than by pure chance.

One benefit of games of skill is that they are a means of exploring one’s own capabilities. Games encourage the player to look at, understand, and experience things. They teach people lessons about themselves and possibly the world, and allow such insights to be passed on to others. (more…)

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Online search engines are caught in an ironic situation. News reports are stating that Google is not accepting paid search ads for online gambling companies, and that Yahoo has followed suit. Yet if you create hard-core pornography, you can easily buy paid advertisement on the world’s largest online search engines.

The search engines and the online gambling industries are growing so rapidly, executives in these companies are finding it hard to set a logical moral code, creating some bizarre contradictions. (more…)

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Tournaments are always fun to play. Competing against other players adds to the excitement for those with a competitive nature. For some players winning the title is almost as important as winning the prize money. Some players prefer tournaments because they know ahead of time what their potential losses will be. Since tournaments have a set entry fee the participants know how much it will cost to play. You can only lose the amount of your entry fee.

It is a well known fact that humans are competitive by nature. Sports, gambling, video games, you name it; they probably have a tournament for it. Tournaments are where players get to show off their skills and partake in a competition to win money, prizes or sometimes just 1st place bragging rights. Casinos around the globe, online and land based hold tournaments everyday.

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Along with Web 2.0 technologies appearance, social networking web sites have become of great importance in the present context of online business development. Viaden Media, member of W3C since 2006 and member of High Technologies Park of Belarus since 2007, is sure it is extremely important to develop modern online society through dynamic content generation. Wikipedia can be considered one of the brightest examples of open source web sites, one of the largest reliable informative knowledge databases covering all the spheres of human activities. Moreover Tools and free software designed by Wikipedia can be widely applied to planning online project development. These new methods should be in each progressive company use.

“We have a profound respect for Wikipedia. They found a way to unite people from all over the world, to make them communicate with each other, to share great ideas and finally to contribute into human knowledge treasury”, says Katsia Chaikouskaya, international manager at Viaden Media. – “Viaden Media specialists use free MediaWiki software as a repository of knowledge collected during company activity. It can be considered a kind of Viaden Media Library where any specialists can find answers to any question. As a result Wikipedia saves our time, it helps us to be well posted on the most recent events and react accordingly. We are proud to be among Wikipedia’s associates and we will maintain any Wikipedia’s undertakings”

Wikipedia community keeps growing up opening more and more opportunities for society. On May 22, 2007, almost 5 million articles in 105 different languages are published on Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a number of sister projects, which include: Wiktionary (a free dictionary), Wikibooks (free textbooks), Wikiquote (a free encyclopedia of quotations), and Wikisource (a repository of source texts that are in the public domain), Wikispecies (Directory of species), Wikiversity (Free learning materials and activities), Meta-Wiki (Wikimedia project coordination), Wikiquote (Collection of quotations), Wikinews (Free-content news).

Victor Viaden, General Director of Viaden Media will attend the third annual international Wikimedia conference. “The coming Wikimania 2007, the International Wikimedia Congress, held in Taipei from August 3 to 5, which is both a scientific conference and a community event, brings together members of various Wikimedia projects in order to exchange ideas, build relationships, and report on research and project efforts. It will help us a lot to obtain further insight into new tendencies of online society development” - says Mr. Viaden.

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In May 2007 Casino and Poker Forum at forum.viaden.com appeared. This gambling information resource was designed by Viaden Media, game production company, member of W3C since 2006 and member of High Technologies Park of Belarus since 2007, for the purpose of gambling business ideas development.

“It is getting more and more important to share information with other people involved in gambling business”, - says Victor Viaden, General Director of Viaden Media. “Viaden Media is a game production company, which tries to do its best delivering the best casino and poker software. We would like to create a new generation gambling community; we would like to see game developers, players and gambling site owners as well as lawyers and merchants on our casino forum. There is nothing more valuable that information in our High Technologies Epoch. And only sharing our knowledge with other people we will get every success.”

Please, contact Viaden Media Team with any question: c[at]viaden.com, skype: sarahpm, ICQ 156528084

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Yahoo! UK & Ireland launched its first attempt at real-money poker, coupling the power of 20.7 million unique visitors per month with a trusted brand to attract customers in countries friendly to online gambling. Of course, it will be very easy for Yahoo to get people trust him and come back again and again to gamble!

Party Poker CEO Mitch Garber said a few years ago, the real competition starts when the Internet giants enter the market.

And Yahoo! is ready for the fight to begin. (more…)

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Hi. Have you ever thought about buying our own casino? May be yes, may be no:))

There are a lot of posts here about buying casino. As far as I know there are different ways you can get this gambling business work.

1) you can find a game development company and ask them to design a software for you according to your wishes and requirements. On the one hand you will get 200% what need, on the other- it will take you more than 1 year !!!! Are you ready to wait? Are you ready have you money frozen all this time? (more…)

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Hi.

Well, I know it is extremely important for those who would like to buy casino to be aware of hidden dangers they can be met with. So this topic is a kind of set of buy casino tips:

1) make sure you know about casino development company
2) check the software you are going to buy: ask game development company for their casino site examples.
3) ask them to get everything on contract signed by both parties
4) make sure you know their contact info like email, skype, instant messages.
5) try to get a discount :))))

any other tips?
thank you

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Hello World.

Advanced people all over the world are searching for bright fresh ideas to start business. Let us think what is the goal for all these inquiries? Do you think investors or business men establish companies to create more workplaces for regular people? or maybe they just feel like they need to do something? Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? The goal should be connected to such words as money or profit, I think. Before making a choice investors analyse market. They compare possible expanses and profit expected. According to a large number of surveys Internet society keeps growing every day. A lot of things are being improved on a daily basis. Here you are examples: Google, Wikipedia, Web 2.0 technologies. There is a high variety of online project: online shops, ecommerce sites, search engines and so on. Online gambling industry is considered one of the most prospective and profitable. Let us think what is required to start gambling business: For examle, casino.

So to start casino you need:
1) casino software with website and casino games. Depending on your budget you can get any number of casino games. Usually casino package goes with website, games and administration area.
2) hosting: very simple. Once again you can get buy hosting from software development company or you can get it in another place. Sometimes it is important where to host it, sometimes it is not. Depends on situation.
3) if you want your players play for real money, merchant account is needed. For information regarding gambling billing read our blog section Gambling billing.

That’s is. It results something around $12,000 not so much, actually.

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Well. this topic is about games casino owners would like to get when buying casino sites.

Most of game development companies offer a set of casino games. As far you understand it results pretty expensive. Try to imagine: you got just $20,000 to start casino and there is no way you can do that as the cheapest one costs $50,000 with neither hosting, nor gambling license in included. This is confusing. According to your gambling business development plan, you are able to spend $20,000 first payment. What will you do? If I were you I’d buy 3-4 casino games, may be the most popular ones, and than, in future, add more (hopefully my casino site will be developed in a special way to make me able to add more games in future). In this case everybody should be happy I suppose: both casino developers and casino owners. As a result, the casino industry will grow attracting investors from all over the world. I check Google (you know one of the most trusted search tools…. well not the most trusted but the most popular 200% … ok both popular and trusted :))) and first positions belong to Viaden with its offer to build casino with any number of games starting from 3. We hope it will work for everybody in a gambling industry.

Your comments welcome
Thank you

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