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Originally Posted by Fortune Palace
Still having a problem with Betfair, Bodog and Purple Lounge, I'm afraid!
Although they now show up in the search (though I'd rather differentiate between Bodog casino, poker and sports), when you add them to the 'Current Affiliate Relationshios', the thumbnail screenshots are blank for the first two and the Purple Lounge one shows a completely different property.
Sorry to keep you busy!
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Andy,
First of all, don't be sorry to keep us busy. The feedback helps us to work out remaining kinks in the version 1.0 features, and this is as important to us as it is to you. So thanks for your help on that front.
With respect to the missing images on the back-end, we anticipate having that fixed sometime on Monday. I should have mentioned in my last post that there was an issue left on that front. However, the front end, which really matters, since that is what the players see, does have the correct images, so I view the back-end image as important to fix, but not urgent.
In terms of Bodog, on the front end application for players right now we only give them the option of selecting that they play at Bodog rather than at the individual sections within Bodog. Since players only have one choice in the front-end of the application, we have to match that view on the back-end for webmasters when they specify a link of their choice for players who want to visit that site.
We understand that on a gaming portal site these want to be distinguished. In fact, we distinguish them ourselves on our website and feel it is important that we do so since we segment our site into different areas for casinos and poker and sports betting. However, our feeling was that a player would think of themselves as playing on the Bodog site rather than thinking of bodog poker and bodog casino and bodog sportsbook as being different sites. So we actually went to some amount of work to present a single brand image on the player end of the Places I've Played application to support that view. But I certainly understand there could be some debate about whether what we are doing now is correct, and I'd welcome feedback on that front.
We do think there is a whole other level of what games players play, and we are actually planning to do a lot of work in that area in the future, but there is a whole other level of complexity that is at least as much work as what we have already taken on. I can tell you that at the same time I bought the domain PlacesIvePlayed.com to support the existing application, I also bought the domain GamesIvePlayed.com to support future expansion into that area. They will probably end up being one big application rather than two - just two different perspectives you can use to approach what players like. But over time I expect the game perspective will actually create greater revenue streams because I believe it allows promotion of properties in the context of a more player-centric games orientation.
In terms of purple lounge, we'll check into that situation and make sure we get it right.
Michael