Yet another year rolls round and its system admin day again.

System admins are the invisible entity or more correctly the unsung hero’s that keep all the tech we have running and they are often very much unappreciated.

When i worked in a job that had a tech support department i would regularly fight through the smell and go into the dark closet where they were kept. The system admins were always working hard trying to get higher scores on eve online or watching you tube but it always confuse them when i thanked them for keeping everything running so smooth and reported that everything was working so well.

The system admins job is not an easy one because they see themselves as high tech and highly skilled individuals tapping away at their Linux system in command line thinking they are uber leet. Unfortunately the rest of the company sees them as the smelly unsocialised nerds in a room that keep breaking things.

The only contact most people have with the system admins of a company are normally when they are complaining about something broken or slow.

Do something different today.

Find out where the system admins of the company reside and hold your breath long enough to go in and thank them for the stellar work they do at keeping everything running smoothly. Don’t disturb them if they are playing video games or reading slashdot because they tend to be a bit aggressive so if this is the case just make a salute to them and leave the room.

They will know why you are there and an unspoken recognition is enough.

Google Page Speed

The Guys over at Syndk8.com have a very interesting write up on the disastrous Google Page Speed Service launched recently.

Google is using the smokescreen of their recent Google+ success to leverage positive public opinion in launching products that not only damage privacy of users but actually take away any privacy and security permanently.

The Syndk8.com Guys are some of the most technically advanced on the internet and see through any of the so called `do no evil` products that Google launch way before any regular users even consider the privacy issues.

Normally focused on Making Money Online, the Syndk8 guys also help people get  out of debt and build their seo empire while protecting themselves from any future problems that can occur on the internet.

Coolcat Casino

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Pzyche was origionally launched to provide in depth analysis of visitor paterns for online gambling sites but very quickly the requests from non online gambling sites wishing to sign up became a clear signal that the the Psyche system needed to be expanded to cover more markets.

The best expanation comes from the Pzyche website.

“Pzyche® is that expert store assistant. The moment the visitor arrives at your website we understand exactly who your visitor is and what products they’re looking for. This allows you in real-time to greet that visitor with content and promotions that are relevant to them. Ensuring that from the moment they arrive to the moment they leave a satisfied customer with the right product tucked under their arm, we’ve made each step down the sales funnel as easy, relevant and intuitive as possible.”

Psyche Analytics starts with the basic free package which allows you to see some of the power of in depth visitor paths while deciding to upgrade to the still very price pleasing credit system for more in-depth analytics.

Jason Duke the creator of Pzyche has long been admired for his forward thinking attitude in the online marketing industry and his peers have been very supportive of this bold move of Jason`s to allow other people to use his tools and possibly gain an insight into the real ways visitors interact with their website.

Foxwoods Casino

Young Su Gy and Wokyung Kim traveled all the way from South Korea to play Macao-style-midi-Baccarat but they decided to stack the deck to give them the upper hand.

Many times last Autumn, Young Su Gy used a holdout device concealed in their sleeves so they could change the cards for their own and get an advantage.

A holdout device is something that can be used to very quickly and invisibly switch the cards or hold the cards to hide them which of course gives you an advantage over the house.

Kim was the lookout and distraction to Foxwoods Casino staff and helped shield Young Su Guy`s actions from other players at the tables or watching the players from behind.

The South Korean duo wagered and won many hundreds of thousands of dollars using deceptive ways to cheat the casino.
The pair confessed to cheating the casino of up-to $1million and they got one year in jail with a three years probation but they also had to pay back over $800`000 of their ill gotten gains.

Inetbet is based in Costa Rica which is a jurisdiction that allows casino owners to operate without the gambling licence which so many company’s are bound to so there is no recourse for any of the owners who are allegedly the target of their theft.

Many Online Casino`s use techniques that violate the Google guidelines and are sometimes even possibly illegal but the blatant theft of content for use in Black Hat SEO blog spam is something which is quite unique.

Rouletters spoke to the victim of the alleged content theft and he said “We were quite surprised to notice that a large group like Inetbet would be interested in stealing content from our Online Casino HD. These are the type of actions one would expect from small time websites without proper marketing budgets or accountability. But I suppose in an SEO climate where gathering links for your website is getting increasingly difficult and some would say almost impossible these things will happen, no matter how much financial backing.”

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Earl Grey has many online casino sites and wants to welcome Online Casino HD and Sexy Steve into the world of the tea drinking Brits.

Wilmott’s remarks were the abbreviated form of a debacle that has lasted for months and centers around the efforts of Penn National Gaming to put up the Hollywood Casino Columbus project in the area only to be met with “harsh and oppressive” response by Columbus city officials. Penn has already done considerable work in getting the proposal to where it currently is, courting Ohio voters to approve a total of four Ohio casinos – Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati, and Columbus – during a vote in November 2009. The hiccup with the city government began when Penn National proposed to move the original location of the casino from the Arena District to the old Delphi Automotive Plant on the west side of the city closer to Franklin Township. The city responded to those actions by not approving Penn’s request for water supply and sewage treatment from the plant, insisting that Penn should honor its initial word of annexing the property into the city.

Another complication to the already convoluted story is the Columbus Dispatch’s petition to refuse a zoning certificate for the casino property until Penn has ironed out its differences with the local government. A subsidiary of the Dispatch Printing Co., the Columbus Dispatch has always been a Penn nemesis since the casino was still first proposed. “We are perplexed and trying to figure out their motive,” said Wilmott in reference to the Dispatch’s actions. He adds that the likely conjecture is one of direct opposition to the idea of having a casino in Columbus by the high honchos at the company despite the fact that citizens have already voted to approve the construction of such a facility. The approval was re-validated by the many that attended the groundbreaking ceremony as everyone extolled the ability of such a big project to provide jobs for locals looking to get back into the workforce after the gripping effects of the last recession.

For Chris Haydocy, for example, his auto dealership which sits right beside the casino site will benefit from the influx of new people coming into the area. Haydocy says this is one of the reasons why community leaders went out of their way to try to bring the casino to the west side nearer to local businesses. Haydocy cites a recent label on the area as the “emptiest neighborhood in 2009” after high residential and commercial vacancies pushed a lot of the businesses and people away from where the casino will soon rise. All in all, a total of 3,500 jobs is expected to be created for the construction phase while another 2,000 will benefit from permanent employment once the facility opens in the second half of 2012 following an 18-month construction plan. Penn insists that more than 90 percent of the 2,000 permanent jobs will go to residents in the area who are still reeling from the last recession.

The expected tax revenue amounting to $63 in annual payments would also go a long way into helping public school districts continue running despite a tight state budget. “Not only is it a company of integrity,” said Lewis Smoot, CEO of the Smoot Construction Co based in Columbus,“but it has a real commitment to diversity and inclusion. This will be a lot of jobs at a time when we need to bring our economy back.”

For many years the online casinos have been known to cheat their affiliates and shave commissions to name but one of their bad traits.

There is a lot of rumbling going on in the industry and affiliates are jumping ship to other more stable industry where their traffic is valued and they get the respect they deserve.

The PayDay loan industry is encouraging unhappy online casino affiliates to jump from the sinking ship and get int the booming short term loan industry.

Time will tell how the industry will cope with the loss of a large amount of affiliates leaving to other more lucrative industry.

Aharon Shaked along with his brother Avi formed the company in 1997 after witnessing first hand how effective a business model the traditional casino was and sensing that there was huge potential for taking a version of this business model onto the then fledgling consumer area of the Internet.

The company went on to be listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005.

Many things have changed within the industry in the years since the brothers started 888 but Aharon Shaked will always be looked up on as one of the pioneers.