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  1. Menstruating Menstruating is offline

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    Mar 24th, 2009 (3/24/2009 5:44am)

    I was just wondering if anyone's imagine was as vivid / active as mine as it relates to the type of communities (sites) which will emerge when poker is legalized in the U.S. Poker was never officially legal, however, there are indicators that this may be the case in the near future.

    I personally see in the future, poker sites opening up their technologies (akin to Facebook and its API's) that will allow for individual application developers to create compatible products. I see this happening because these compatible products can be marginal fee based offerings that serve to offset taxes and cost acquisitions per user, if not create whole new revenue streams.

    Imagine if there was a way to connect and share with any poker player in the world, so long as strong anti-cheating mechanisms were in place? Imagine being at work bored on your lunch break, you fire up your iPhone and watch the last 10 hands won or lost by ckingusc? The possibilities are endless!! There are countless things I'd like to be able to do (and I'm sure you all can agree) as it relates to poker communiteering that simply do not exist currently.

    Web 3.0 technologies, devices, strong wireless networks, GPS, etc will make "centrally moderated forums" a thing of the past. "Centrally moderated forums" are Web 1.0. We already exist in Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 trends are emerging. Even if poker sites are slow to evolve to make their technologies more forward leaning, it doesn't matter. There exist some terrific models that if applied to poker as it relates to communiteering, would create more much meaningful user experiences (interactions) than through just your standard "centrally moderated forum." I can't wait to see what poker communities look like in three years!!!!

    What do you guys all think? How can the web further enrich your poker life?
  2. MysteryMethod09 MysteryMethod09 is offline

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    Mar 24th, 2009 (3/24/2009 9:01am) in reply to Menstruating

    Interesting... forums will definitely be a thing of the past. It would be cool for someone to create a poker community where people could share and interact with more players, share with the people in their life who do not play poker as it relates to their success... not worry about being deleted, and not worry about being banned.

    Whether or not poker is legalized, in three years your classic forum site with light integration into other social networks will look about as ancient as AOL in 1996.
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