The first time I was exposed to Texas Hold’em was in the late 90s. I remember watching the movie Rounders with Matt Damon; instantly, I was hooked on both. I enjoy playing Texas Hold’em for entertainment. I have it on my iPod and on my Facebook page. Zynga’s Texas Hold’em is the number one game application on Facebook. Players play with virtual money in casinos from Boston to Barcelona. Zynga understands that it’s not just about playing the game, it’s about where you play and who you play with that adds excitement.
Zynga Texas Holdem for Facebook
One of the things I like about watching The World Series of Poker on ESPN is the player hand percentage of winning. Although those percentages can change with the flip of one card, knowing the percentages is a strategy many players employ.
Right now Social Media is a fluid and daily changing river of digital channels. New start-ups are entering the social wars every day. Knowing which ones will make it to the river can be a risky bet. One of the ace of spades in social bookmarking is StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon was founded in 2001 and was purchased by eBay in May 2007, until April 2009, when two of the founders, backed by investors, bought it back.
In June of 2009, StumbleUpon showed its cards introducing Su.pr a powerful URL Shorten tool. With combined Twitter and Facebook integration, Su.pr providers quick bookmarking that can be linked to Twitter accounts and/or Facebook accounts to let others know what sites you have stumbled upon. The ability to schedule updates as well as a simple dashboard to track the clicks per update allows Su.pr users to know what tweets are most popular. It’s like knowing the percentages for the winning social poker hand.
Social Web Tool Su.pr
“Su.pr’s analytics are similar to those that fellow UR shortening service bit.ly provides, except that Su.pr is connected to website discovery service Stumbleupon, which gives each link an extra distribution push. Links can be voted upon by the StumbleUpon community (which the platform estimates as 8 million users), and if it becomes popular the link can become viral. For StumbleUpon, Su.pr is a way to seed the service with links people are already pushing out to their real-time streams.” TechCrunch July 8, 2009
Stacking Social Web Tools Twitter and Facebook
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