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		<title>How BetFair screw up the &#8220;Next Mayor Of London&#8221; embeddable, enriched, compound chart widget &#8212;BIG TIME</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris F. Masse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- PUT YOUR MOUSE CURSOR ON ONE OF THE WHITE DOTS PRESENT ON THE CHART, AND SPOT THE POP-UP MESSAGE. - IF YOU&#8217;RE READING THIS FROM WITHIN YOUR FEED READER, GO TO THE BLOG POST, ON THE MIDAS ORACLE WEBSITE, &#8230; <a href="http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/04/23/how-betfair-screw-up-the-next-mayor-of-london-embeddable-compound-enriched-chart-widget-big-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<strong>PUT YOUR MOUSE CURSOR ON ONE OF THE WHITE DOTS PRESENT ON THE CHART, AND SPOT THE POP-UP MESSAGE.</strong><br />
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<strong>IF YOU&#8217;RE READING THIS FROM WITHIN YOUR FEED READER, <a href="http://www.midasoracle.org/2008/04/23/how-betfair-screw-up-the-next-mayor-of-london-embeddable-compound-enriched-chart-widget-big-time/">GO TO THE BLOG POST, ON THE MIDAS ORACLE WEBSITE</a>, BECAUSE THE BETFAIR CHART WIDGET IN QUESTION DOESN&#8217;T APPEAR IN THE FEED.</strong><br />
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1. The chart should output the market-generated, implied probabilities expressed in percentages &#8212;not <strong>those damn decimal/digital odds.</strong> (Actually, Boris Johnson is <em><strong>ahead of</strong></em> Ken Livingstone.)<br />
2. The news markers were filled by <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04192008/news/regionalnews/kinky_news_networkcnns_quest_a_very_knot_107174.htm">RIchard Quest</a>, last week-end, during his Central Park escapade, it seems. <img src='http://www.midasoracle.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' />  &#8230; I mean, these comments were <strong>written <a href="http://betting.betfair.com/mayor/">in a tabloid way</a>.</strong><br />
3. The blogger who would embed this compound chart would like to write <strong><em>his/her own</em> news markers.</strong><br />
4. Clicking on the &#8220;Â£25 free bet now&#8221; area, at the right lower corner, <strong>did <em>not</em> open any new browser tab</strong> showing the BetFair website because my browser, Mozilla FireFox, &#8220;prevented this site from opening a popup window&#8221;.<br />
5. The chart widget shows up <a href="http://www.midasoracle.com/">on the webpage</a>, but <strong>not in the feed</strong> &#8212;most of the blog readership happens in feed readers, nowadays. Just below is a screen shot of the feed of the <a href="http://www.midasoracle.com/">Midas Oracle .COM</a> blog, where I published one blog post with the BetFair chart widget, and another blog post with the inTrade chart widget. <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http://www.midasoracle.com/feed/">As you can plainly see</a>, the InTrade chart widget can be consumed thru a feed reader, while the BetFair one can&#8217;t. (You don&#8217;t see that on the screen shot below, but, for your information, all InTrade chart widgets can be seen in a feed reader, including the InTrade <em>compound</em> chart widgets.)</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http://www.midasoracle.com/feed/"><img title="london-mayor-betfair-versus-intrade" src="http://www.midasoracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/london-mayor-betfair-versus-intrade.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
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