There is no doubt that 2009 has been a tough year for the online gambling industry. With the full force of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act taking affect, late 2008 saw Microgaming powered casinos and online poker rooms stop accepting new players from the United States.

Hot on the heels of this announcement the Grand Prive Casino Group notified all their affiliate partners that they were shutting down their affiliate program with affect from 1st December 2008. Stating...

For those of you that don't know, DMOZ also known as the Open Directory Project was started in the 1990's by Netscape. It's sole purpose to be the internet's number one authority human edited directory.

DMOZ/ODP quickly established itself as the authoriative directory and soon webmasters were clammering to get their websites a DMOZ listing.

This subsequently increased when google decided to use the DMOZ rdf dump to base the google directory on.

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Upon redesigning and revamping Online Casino Reviewer, as well as bringing the content up to date for our visitors, the other issue I want to tackle is the forum.

I honestly believe that the forum on OCR can and could be a great resource for all our visitors. It is however certainly an area of the site I have neglected for far too long.

I feel the purpose of the forum should allow all those interested in playing online a platform to speak with other likeminded individuals....

This is a test posting to my blog to see that all is working as it should be