Our friend Phil Fraser wrote an intriguing article that appears in iGaming Business magazine this month. He speculates that online bingo has sped past the "next big thing" moniker, through its ugly duckling phase and is now "all grown up." While that's certainly true in the UK, it's not necessarily so in the rest of Europe and other parts of the world. There are big things ahead for online bingo when we start thinking globally.

The true measure of any company is its team. And Parlay has an outstanding one! We believe a company that plays together stays together; which has been clinically proven to result in better software! So we’re constantly encouraging our employees to connect with each other in unique and unexpected ways.
Just check out these photos!

Hard to believe that ICEi wrapped up more than a month ago! Only 327 days until ICEi 2009!

In case you couldn’t be there to visit us in person, here are a few photos that were taken at our stand.

Cross-domain Security

In Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and up, Adobe has added new strictness to the way it handles cross-domain security. If you have one .swf file trying to access a .swf on another domain, that other domain must have a crossdomain.xml file located at its webroot, otherwise the request will fail. In our case, when Bingo loads, it may try to access files located on a separate server or retrieve transaction data from the gameserver. If a crossdomain.xml file is not found, or otherwise determined to be invalid, the application may behave erratically eg. may not get past the loading screen.

Last week I had the opportunity to speak with a real thought-leader in online bingo. Jeremy Collis is a former managing director of Littlewoods Gaming who last year launched BigHeartBingo.com.

The doors of ICEi have closed for yet another year, and the stands are being torn down around me as I write this. It was one hell of a show – the best ever for us – with lots of enthusiasm surrounding the online bingo space. Seems we say the same thing every year, but it's always true: every ICEi is better than the last.

The great thing about ICEi is it's the only time of year when virtually the entire online gaming industry gets together in the same place at the same time. It's the perfect place to connect faces to names and catch up with people you only get see at shows like this.

ICEi 2008 has officially begun and we’re off to a roaring start. What a difference a year makes. Last year’s show came on the heels the UIGEA, so the atmosphere was serious, even somber. A year later, we’ve collectively embraced the challenges and regained our enthusiasm.

Has Parlay Entertainment been bought? Not yet. But if the acquisition does proceed, no changes in management, operations or head-office location are being considered. It will be business as usual here at Parlay. I mean, why change a good thing?

It's that time of year again -- when the global gaming industry converges in London to strut their stuff at the ICE/ICEi exhibition. For the gang at Parlay, it will be our seventh year holding court at Earls Court. So we know that by the end of Day Three we'll have sore feet, dry mouths and maybe just a touch of a hangover. But we wouldn't miss it for the world.