TradeFair-BetFair, InTrade-TradeSports, Betdaq and MatchBook should have blogs.
Chris F. Masse December 7th, 2007
Good point from Robert Scoble:
[...] Here’s a test. Visit a Best Buy store. Now imagine that store without ANY human beings inside. What do you have? A bankrupt store.
So why when I visit BestBuy.com [their website] don’t I see any people? Hear any conversations? Is there any wonder why Amazon has a P/E ratio much higher than Best Buy? (Amazon puts real people on its Web site — it’s ironic that an Internet focused company “gets” the value of people and their conversations better than a “brick and mortar” store does since without people a brick and mortar store would simply not exist). [...]
Excellent argument.
They do have forums, which serve a lot of that that purpose (conversation between participants and administrators). He cites Amazon because of the conversations users have in the reviews of any product; the interaction is what’s important, not the method. That said, blogs would be nice.