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Tag Archives: chart widgets
InTrade’s website redesign – [QUESTION]
Where’s the chart widget? Don’t see it, do you?
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Charting System
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Tagged chart widgets, charting system, charts, InTrade, market charting system
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BetFair’s chart widgets don’t go into feeds.
Why the fuck would bloggers embed BetFair’s chart widgets if their blog readers can’t see these charts when using feed readers (like Google Reader)? Once again, we can see plainly the incompetence of the BetFair team when it comes to … Continue reading →
BetFair’s crappy chart widgets
They are crappy because they don’t go into feeds —contrary to InTrade and NewsFutures’s chart widgets. BetFair’s crappy chart widgets were crafted by DeLuxe Corporation. Yet another web service provider to avoid.
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Charting System, Software
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Tagged BetFair, chart widgets, charts, DeLuxe Corporation, prediction markets, widgets
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HubDub chart widgets
HubDub should tell the bloggers who want to embed their chart widgets in posts that the WordPress blog authors who are neither administrator nor editor should ask for their account to be updated so as to be enabled to publish … Continue reading →
Problem with the Inkling Markets chart widgets
When inserted in a WordPress blog post, they create a perturbation in the force —the size of the font of the webpage they are implemented in is slightly augmented. Case in point: look here, and spot the augmented horizontal menu … Continue reading →
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Tagged chart widgets, charts, dynamic charts, inkling markets, prediction markets
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The Inkling Markets chart widgets are un-usable —unlike NewsFutures and HubDub’s ones.
They do not go into feeds. – - Regrettably, I never quoted Inkling during the last 2008 US presidential elections for that reason —and because I am not sure about the reputation of the people who expire contracts. -
BetFair’s chart widgets are a total nuclear disaster. BetFair should apologize publicly for this shame.
- Technical Note: The stuff above is a screen shot from my “predictions” webpage. – My previous post on the charting systems of the prediction exchanges —and BetFair in particular -
2008 US presidential election prediction — A visual approach of InTrade’s prediction markets
Congrats to InTrade for this widget. – - -
3 reasons why bloggers should boycott BetFair Predicts
I am writing this post with the hope that the good BetFair people in HammerSmith stumble on it, and make the necessary changes. – I do recommend that my fellow bloggers boycott BetFair Predicts for these 3 important reasons: The … Continue reading →
At BetFair Predicts, they are technologically retarded.
- BetFair Predicts is a blog that aims at the Americans. In my view, it’s a big failure (once again). BetFair listened to some snake-oil “social media” consultant. As an experienced and successful webmaster, I can tell you there are … Continue reading →
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Internet Usability, Prediction Journalism
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Tagged BetFair, BetFair blog, BetFair Predicts, Betting at BetFair, bloggers, blogging, chart widgets, charts, dynamic charts, feed readers, feed subscribers, feeds, Google Reader, Homer's brain, Internet Usability, Open Media, prediction markets, usability
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