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The new age shows that the future technology explores all kinds of the communication from simple telephone to the internet. As everyday brings the new releases of different products, we do not imagine life without internet. The access to it is easy and no matter where we are – train, car, work, and home – there is not any problem to get connected.

Just two decades ago no one would think that the computer technology would bring so much to everyday's life. But, what do we look for mostly in the internet, is daily information about what is going on around the world, but also many try their luck to earn money over the net. This may occur in different ways. Some will try their luck on on-line stock exchange and some simply by playing on the net, other words, by online gambling.

Every year brings number of new portals where we can play and win. This kind of home entertainment keeps us busy at nights and even very often during the hours of our work. Today we find online casinos and online poker without any problem. It is enough to search the browser for a site that will fulfill our requirements. And the choice is very wide.

Online gambling has nearly doubled every year since 1997 and just in 2001 it exceed 2 billion US Dollars. But to gamble on the net is as dangerous as to gamble in real casino or poker room. According to the American Psychological Association the Internet could be as addictive as drugs, alcohol, and gambling. Many good sites offering these types of games try to have good protecting program from being addicted, but the last word always belongs to us. If you gamble on the net you should know the warning signals letting you know something goes wrong. These, among others, are: increased preoccupation with gambling, wide mood swings, relying on others for money to relieve a financial problem that arose due to gambling, lying to family members or others to hide the amount of gambling. The research shows that four to six percent of those who regularly gamble will eventually become problem gamblers or compulsive gamblers. Great number of the addicted people will never ask for help.

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Microgaming is one of the largest casino gaming software providers on the Internet. The company powers more than 120 online casinos and 40 online poker rooms, along with land based and wireless gaming platforms.

The Microgaming online casino software comes both in a downloadable version and a Flash version – the Flash casinos runs directly in your browser. Microgaming has over 300 different casino games to choose from ranging from Roulette and Craps to Video Poker and numerous different slots variations. Both front and back-end supports multilanguage, multiplayer games.

Microgaming software powers two of the largest gaming networks online. The online casino network shares progressive jackpots between the different casinos – these are some of the biggest jackpots you can find online. The casinos in the network have paid out over $200 million in jackpot since the start. The poker network is also quite large, connecting poker rooms such as GNUF, Betway and Doyle’s Room.

One thing is for sure, Microgaming is in the forefront when it comes to creating innovative and safe internet gaming software. In 2006 Microgaming won the Gambling Online Magazine Silver Award for best casino software. The company is constantly evolving the gambling online, making Microgaming one of the leading gaming software providers in the business.

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All right, now I have a reason to think about BrainKing design which would be running on a 320x240 screen resolution because my new cell phone supports these parameters and it might be a good advantage to access BrainKing from anywhere without carrying a much bigger laptop.

But it is not what I have wanted to post today.

Based on reports of BrainKing users and our own investigations, we have made the rules of publishing a Flash banner much more restrictive (for advertisers), in order to give our visitors a better protection against any kind of a strange behavior which could suddenly start to appear. Since yesterday, no provided banner which does not pass our test of safety cannot be published on any page of any BrainKing site (including this one). We understand that the security should be always the top priority and if you can observe a rectangular animated image on BrainKing now, please be aware that it is either a totally harmless plain image or a simple Flash movie with only one purpose - to visualize and promote a site or a product.

And, at least we are a little bit smarter now.

You might have noticed that I like to use BrainKing sites to try out new technologies and an interoperability of them. Furthermore, I like the users to play with it. The game site (BrainKing.com) was usually the main playground but since the blog site (BrainKing.info) is showing an incredible growth of traffic (see the previous posts about the site statistics), I have decided to choose this one.

On the other hand, it can appear on the BrainKing.com site as well, but can be turned off on the Settings page (paying members).

All right, what is it all about? The observant readers of this blog have undoubtedly noticed that I have completely removed all banner ads from the site, because they have turned out to be a waste of time and page space, regarding the drastically low income they could generate. Moreover, they used to be always the same, and who wants to see the same advertisement for the 100th time?

Just a few days ago I have started to experiment with in-text contextual advertisement links provided by Kontera. You might have spotted a couple of new links with a double underline at the recent entries of the blog. When you hover your mouse cursor over them, a short description of the company which provides the advertisement appears, and if you are interested in it, you simply click and visit their site. If not, just move the mouse cursor elsewhere and the advertisement silently disappears. Simple and effective.

I like this technology because it gives people a choice. The classic banner ads don't - you must see them, whether you want to or not. And although some text analysis gives funny results (for example, Firefox Extension is translated to Hair and Extensions Studio, most likely because Kontera says that it can take up to two weeks to finetune the text analyzing algorithm for our site), it can occasionally bring up interesting information. I have just spent about half an hour browsing the historical articles of this blog to observe which words or phrases would be turned to clickable links.

And, as the bottom line, I am glad to add a new article to the Advertising on BrainKing category.

BrainKing is a site which must live on something because everything costs money and we have no sponsors who would send us a million dollar check every month just for nothing. Shortly said, there are two main sources of our income:

• Paid membership
• Advertising revenues

This article is related to the latter one, mostly due to an event which has recently happened. One of our users reported that BrainKing was displaying an advertisement of a company which does not deliver ordered goods after receiving a payment (read some customer reviews here). Since BrainKing wants to provide only good and reliable information, we had a serious problem.

How to solve it?

First of all, I would like to describe (shortly) how the advertising system on BrainKing works. Most of the ads are delivered by Google AdSense program which analyzes a page content and shows relevant advertisements (because there is a better change they would attract a visitor's attention). However, the publisher (BrainKing) cannot specify which advertisers would be actually displayed, we can only set several relevant keywords to help Google choose the field of interest.

Fortunatelly, there is a solution which is called Competitive Ad Filter. It is a list of site URLs or domains which would never appear on BrainKing as an advertisement. Right now, it contains one domain - the already mentioned epcbuyer.com because all other partners seem to be good and reliable and there were no other complaints.

Now, at last, we come to the point of this article. If you happen to see an advertisement of a company which has a bad reputation, don't hesitate to report it immediately. We don't have time to check everything at once and any help would be very appreciated (and awarded). Let's make the good information visible and the bad one removed forever.