Monthly Archives: July 2009

Online Bingo is where the money is at – Cashcade sold for £71.9m

This almost passed me by, last week saw a pretty big announcement in the online gaming sector. PartyGaming acquired Cashcade for £71.9m in cash with up to a further £24m payable dependent on future profit performance. So just to be clear that’s almost £96m, a fair chunk of change by anybody’s standards. For anyone not sure of who these companies are, PartyGaming is an online gaming operator whose brands include PartyPoker, PartyBingo and Gamebookers. They are a publicly traded company … Continue reading
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ShareMyPlaylists.com version 2 goes live – social networking for music fans

It’s only been 4 and a half months since I launched ShareMyPlaylists.com but today sees the launch of version 2 of the Spotify community site. To be honest the site has taken off beyond my wildest dreams. It’s gone from a standing start to generating between 8,000 and 10,000 visitors a day today, all grown organically. Back in April I blogged about some of the techniques I used to grow traffic to the site and to generate some buzz – … Continue reading
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Redwine.co.uk and Whitewine.co.uk

Big thanks to Fraser for the two bottles of wine that he sent me this week. As you can see from looking at the customised labels, these bottles are to promote whitewine.co.uk and redwine.co.uk – nice domains, that Fraser managed to buy from the original owners. As I’ve been saying for years now, it’s always always best to create sites around your interestes/hobbies and by the sounds of it Fraser is starting to get serious about the wine market. Good … Continue reading
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