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Poker News widget in Google by Pokernews
June 03, 2009Those who use Gmail and other Google services, especially iGoogle – customized start page – already know about the possibility to add some interesting gadgets to it. PokerNews provides a couple of them:
Poker News gadget
A simple and nice gadget provides the news from Pokernews.com. If you click the “Settings” link, you can select some categories if you do not want to see all the news. You can also set the number of news to be shown if you have more space or if your space is limited. To add the Poker News gadget just click the Google button below.
In the nearest future we will make the multilingual version of this widget, so you would be able to add the poker news to Google in Dutch, German, French, Russian, Portuguese and 20 more languages.
Poker Term Of The Day
Click "Add to Google" buttonLearning is the main key in poker professionalism. One of the most important issues in poker life is the specific vocabulary and jargon used among poker players. Beginners should add this Poker Term of the Day widget in order to learn at least 1 word per day. (It took me 3 days to understand what GG and NH meant at the online poker room table chat). The widget is simple and easy to understand.
You can also add this widget to your Gmail's left side column by the XML URL - http://www.pokernews.com/gadgets/news/pngg_news_re ader.xml
Here is the detailed instruction how to add any Gadget to Gmail by custom URL. You may also add this widget to your blogger.com account. Here are the instructions how to do it. Please remember to use the keyword "pokernews" when you search for a gadget by the keyword, so that and you would find the list of all the Pokernews gadgets to select from.In the future we will add more widgets as we are still working on them. PokerNews has also got some other Poker Tools for webmasters and bloggers - free Texas Holdem poker odds calculator among them. I have also wrote about the first Adobe Air Odds Calculator desktop application for Windows Linux and Macintosh.
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WSOP Live Reporting goes to Twitter
May 27, 2009Great news! WSOP 2009 will be covered in PokerNews Live Reporting section AND Twitter!
Some poker media companies use Twitter only as a tool for spam. PokerNews does not and will never do so, as we hate spam and spammers
. We use @pokernews in Twitter to provide quality information for as much people as possible. Poker is the game of fun, so everybody should know all the interesting issues and events happening in poker world 
.I am very proud to announce that WSOP live updates of ALL the events will be broadcasted directly to Twitter even if 5 events are broadcasted simultaneously.
Everyone should follow @pokernews_live account to get the latest live reporting updates on their phones and other devices or applications.
If you are already following PokerNews on Twitter, please let all your friends know about it by retweeting any of the updates.
We will also implement this automatic update feature on all the other PokerNews sites (Dutch Pokernews in the first place with @pokernewsnl account).
After the WSOP is over we will continue to use this Twitter account for PokerNews reporting, including EPT, WSOP Circuit events, PokerNews Cup etc. So this is not a one-time venue. We will do this as long as Pokernews will do the reporting of live poker tournaments.
P.S. Our TV hostess Gloria Balding will be using this account for her personal updates as well as for the WSOP 2009 videos.
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New PokerNews design - POLL
February 21, 2009Hello, folks. As you have already noticed, main PokerNews.com site has changed the design and layout. Some new features are launched as well. Pay some attention to new Online Poker section. There you will find some new sections such as Latest Gossip and Rumors, Online Poker Blogs, Head to Head Interviews, Hands of the Day and of course Room reviews. Also new section about Texas Holdem has been launched. It is for beginning poker players in order to get them acquainted with wonderful game of poker
.What has been done? The column was moved to the left. Now you can see the submenu in the left column as well as top reviews and some special promos. Right column remained for tournament calendar and room reviews. The textual field now is in the middle. i am sure the reviews design will change soon, but shhhh... this is a secret.
I would like to ask you to examine the new design and some pages and tell me your opinion in a simple way - using Poll. If you use Twitter, please RT it.
Thanks a lot. Your opinion is very valuable to us.
UPDATE. Here is poll results after couple of days after the poll was started.
Poll results March 20thAs You can see more than a half liked the new Pokernews.com design, however some of people still feel nostalgic about the old one
That's normal as it takes time to get used to changes. More than quarter thinks we could have done better. Sure, we can never reach the perfectness I am leaving this poll open in case you haven't voted yet and want to vote now. -
The special Tournament for PokerNews.com Forumers!
July 17, 2008I have organized a special tournament in PokerStars for pokernews.com forum members. You can get more info in this forum topic. This is password protected small buy-in tournament with quite substantial added prize pool.
If this tournament will be successful we will do more and with bigger added prizepools than $500.
Our Moderator Davega is taking care of that tournament. So ask any questions in that topic.
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PokerNews complete remake
May 13, 2008I am trying to find out about the pokernews.com and all the international sites remake. I am thinking of lots of new features which can be helpful for the readers. Maybe you can suggest some features you now miss in Pokernews?
You can write me the PM or comment it here. Also you can write your opinion in special topic in the forum.
I will tell you the secret - we will remake the entire forum. Some of the topics will be with the password and can be accessed invitations only
There we will post the passwords for our tournaments for the trusted members. -
Your blog to the Home Page of Pokernews.com
May 09, 2008Hello,
we have launched a new feature - latest blogs and photos in the home page of Pokernews.com or any other language site. 5 latest blogs and 10 (3 are visible, others are visible clicking Forward and Backward buttons) lates pictures will allow Pokernews sites visitors to see your blog and read it.
Your Blogs in PokerNews.com Home PagePlease be active as now your blog can be read by lots of people. Make sure you name it in interesting way (for example, I saw 1 Estonian blog called "Porno". I expected to see porn movie or picture but the blog described the "pornographic" situation in FullTilt - bad beat. The blog got lots of attention
).All the language sites show the blogs of their language only. Please check your language settings again.
As pictures do not belong to any language you can see the all latests one.
New features to come! Stay tuned!
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Shoutbox in Live reporting
April 24, 2008Hello,
we have launched a new feature in PokerNews live reporting section (in all language sites) - Shoutbox. Please take a look to your Pokernews site live reporting. I will give the link to UK Pokernews:
http://uk.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2008-pokern ewscup-austria/main-event/blog/Just below the banner in the right column.
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PokerNews in social networks
March 25, 2008As you know all the world is crazy about social networks such as Facebook, mySpace, Orkut etc. I have decided to move the Pokernews community wider than my.pokernews. If you are member of Facebook, Orkut or MySpace, please join Pokernews groups:
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2228205612
Orkut - http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=47231344
MySpace - http://groups.myspace.com/pokernewscomOnce there will be some members i will organize some tournaments with added money exclusively for the each group members (passwords will be available to the registered members sent by private messages). Also I will advertise my.pokernews there, so we will have even more members.
Please help to make Pokernews community as big as possible!
Good luck!
Marius
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Multiple live support options
August 30, 2007Hello,
today we have launched improved "Contact Us" pages in all PokerNews sites. Now besides email you can write private message to my.PokerNews support member. Also other messengers can be available depending if support guys are using them.
Take a look:
http://www.pokernews.com/contact.htm
Live support Chat options in PokernewsBy the way, you all can add your own messenger contacts in your my.PN profile
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Serbian PokerNews launched
August 27, 2007I am very glad to announce that we have launched the PokerNews Serbia site.
This site will be edited by Serbian editor Imre.
Good luck!
