What should Nigel Eccles do with HubDub’s cash

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Play-money prediction exchange HubDub has been selected to be part of a group of British startups that will be touring the Silicon Valley.

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HubDub should redo completely its charting system. They are using Adobe Flash technology, and I’m not sure it’s the right one.

• One should be able to download the HubDub static charts (including the expired charts) and re-publish them on blogs;
• One should be able to publish HubDub dynamic charts (i.e., charts that update themselves in the future);
• One should be able to see the HubDub dynamic charts within one’s feed reader; [*]
• The HubDub blog, which has started a grand foray into prediction market journalism (see this entry on Spitzer), should publish dynamic trading charts.

Other than that, I like HubDub very much, and I think that the arrival of Nigel Eccles on the scene is the best thing that happened in the field of prediction markets last year (in 2007).

[*] The NewsFutures and Bet2Give presidential widgets, and the Inkling Markets widgets, suffer from that problem, too. (As I understood it, JavaScript doesn’t work in feed readers.)

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