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.

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.

What a whirlwind the last month has been. First to Gibraltar and Malta for customer meetings. Then to London for the terrific Bingo Summit and eGaming Awards. Next to Argentina, exploring Latin American market opportunities. And finally Spain for the biggest EiG ever. It's not easy keeping up with the momentum of online bingo these days.

It's the eve of London's Online Bingo summit and I'm feeling a bit nostalgic. Has it really been more than a decade since Parlay developed the world's first interactive online bingo site? Is it true that we were instrumental in reinventing and reinvigorating the world's most popular game?