http://www.thebeargrowls.com/?p=389 Opinions and Commentary on the Gaming Industry Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:47:22 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.thebeargrowls.com/?p=389&cpage=1#comment-120 FoolsGold Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:50:42 +0000 http://www.thebeargrowls.com/?p=389#comment-120 A greater technological hazard faced by problem gamblers is that the casinos have a self-ban program but Google does not, so a problem-gambler's computer will get a good many casino advertisements pushed to it based on the gambler's search history. A greater technological hazard faced by problem gamblers is that the casinos have a self-ban program but Google does not, so a problem-gambler’s computer will get a good many casino advertisements pushed to it based on the gambler’s search history.

]]> http://www.thebeargrowls.com/?p=389&cpage=1#comment-118 FoolsGold Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:22:22 +0000 http://www.thebeargrowls.com/?p=389#comment-118 I'm not too sure I consider it all that reprehensible for the casinos to be utilizing technology. Should your enumerated groups Problem Gamblers and Degenerates be allowed to prevent the casinos from embracing technology? I prefer emails to physical mailings from a casino. If other firms are going onto MySpace or Facebook or Twitter, why should a casino not be allowed to? Problem Gamblers have the option of not logging in. Advertising in general may be an unwelcome intrusion into our lives but I dont really see casino advertising as all that different. Find each other? I'm sure the first uses will be made by the attractive young ladies who generally decorate the lounges and approach solitary males with offers of companionship. Its not all that difficult to do the old-fashioned way; they might as well do it electronically! Its not that I particularly favor advertising or commercial intrusion, its just that I don't see any use in making distinctions about casino advertising versus other advertising. The casinos use player cards to fine tune their marketing program, why not FaceBook also? I’m not too sure I consider it all that reprehensible for the casinos to be utilizing technology.
Should your enumerated groups Problem Gamblers and Degenerates be allowed to prevent the casinos from embracing technology?
I prefer emails to physical mailings from a casino. If other firms are going onto MySpace or Facebook or Twitter, why should a casino not be allowed to?
Problem Gamblers have the option of not logging in.
Advertising in general may be an unwelcome intrusion into our lives but I dont really see casino advertising as all that different.
Find each other? I’m sure the first uses will be made by the attractive young ladies who generally decorate the lounges and approach solitary males with offers of companionship. Its not all that difficult to do the old-fashioned way; they might as well do it electronically!
Its not that I particularly favor advertising or commercial intrusion, its just that I don’t see any use in making distinctions about casino advertising versus other advertising.
The casinos use player cards to fine tune their marketing program, why not FaceBook also?

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