Tag Archives: charts
Do not fuck with data visualization
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Have you tried Timetric? Like it? Use it?
Timetric
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What I don’t like: The smart charts don’t go into blog feed.
Do you have remarks about his service? Useful? Not useful?
Comment below or e-mail me —or Twitter me.
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 blogging. They don’t have the first clue. In spite of my blogging and e-mailing this issue [...]
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.
Twitter and the prediction markets
There is here one extremely popular Twitter application for talking online about stocks. Maybe, one prediction market startup will apply the same concept to prediction markets.
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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 “Unfiltered HTML”. (The WordPress administrator would do such an account update thanks to the “Role [...]
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 bar.
No more Inkling Markets chart widgets on Midas Oracle until:
this problem is solved;
their chart widgets [...]
The Inkling Markets chart widgets are un-usable —unlike NewsFutures and HubDub’s ones.
They do not go into feeds.
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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.
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BetFair’s chart widgets are a total nuclear disaster. BetFair should apologize publicly for this shame.
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Technical Note: The stuff above is a screen shot from my “predictions” webpage.
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My previous post on the charting systems of the prediction exchanges —and BetFair in particular
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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.
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I do recommend that my fellow bloggers boycott BetFair Predicts for these 3 important reasons:
The background of the BetFair Predicts charts is colored in black —which is the color associated with death. Their [...]
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