Straight from the spin doctor:
Lightstreamer announced that HedgeStreet.com, the USA’s first government-regulated person to person online futures trading market for binary and futures contracts, has implemented web based real-time streaming prices with Lightstreamer. This streaming Ajax solution from Lightstreamer allows HedgeStreet customers to access live HedgeStreet prices via the Internet and trade from anywhere with just a simple browser, thus avoiding complications which result when downloads or plug-ins may be required.
Good technological choice? Bad one? What do you think, the techies (Mike Linksvayer, Chris Hibbert, and company)?
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Addendum: Mike Linksvayer has posted a comment…
Press release 1.0 has stood the test of time. Good choice.
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Addendum 2 (December 08): Chris Hibbert has posted a comment…
Well, I doubt that it will be controversial when I say that adopting AJAX as a means to stream out prices and build more reactive interfaces is a good idea. I used AJAX techniques in the econ-experiment-supporting version of Zocalo http://zocalo.sourceforge.net. I expect to eventually incorporate a library to do the same thing for the generic prediction market framework.
I don’t have an opinion about Lightstreamer specifically; it’s not open source, so I’m not going to spend the time to evaluate it’s strengths and weaknesses. I’ve seen a couple of open source packages that look like reasonable choices, but I won’t spend the time to evaluate them in detail until the appropriate time to integrate one into Zocalo.
Press release 1.0 has stood the test of time. Good choice.
Well, I doubt that it will be controversial when I say that adopting AJAX as a means to stream out prices and build more reactive interfaces is a good idea. I used AJAX techniques in the econ-experiment-supporting version of Zocalo http://zocalo.sourceforge.net. I expect to eventually incorporate a library to do the same thing for the generic prediction market framework.
I don’t have an opinion about Lightstreamer specifically; it’s not open source, so I’m not going to spend the time to evaluate it’s strengths and weaknesses. I’ve seen a couple of open source packages that look like reasonable choices, but I won’t spend the time to evaluate them in detail until the appropriate time to integrate one into Zocalo.