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The HSX bozos, who briefly experimented with a website “redesign”, have now reverted to their original platform.
Towards the end of October, I chronicled, in very harsh words, the so-called “redesign” of the Hollywood Stock Exchange website. I wrote that the HSX executives who gave the green light to that “redesign” are a bunch of usability bozos, who should be sent flipping burgers on Main Street, instead of running a prediction exchange.
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Why would an event derivative trader inform his/her fellow traders about pieces of information that give clues about the future outcome of an event that they all bet on?
- Why did Jenni Peterson give clues to her competitors?
- Why didn’t she keep the information (see comments #6 and #7) close to her chest instead?
- Do the traders who use play money are more talkative than the traders who use real money?
- Shouldn’t an event derivative trader beam out false signals instead of helping [...]
At inception, I created an “Internet usability” category, and, since, I have published many Jakob Nielsen stories. Many wondered why I would bother. Now, the Midas Oracle readers can understand why.
These traders are talking down the newly redesigned Hollywood Stock Exchange website.
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[They guy above has misspelled, two times. He meant: "unusable".]
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Previously: #1 – #2 – #3 – #4
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UPDATE: Traders talk on Twitter about HSX.
Thanks to the HubDub guy for the tip.
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Meet Andrew Wing, the recently appointed CEO of Cantor Entertainment, who (along with Alex Costakis) has lead to the complete and definitive destruction of the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
Andrew Wing
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Variety – (at the time of the Andrew Wing appointment):
He’ll work closely with the HSX team to adapt the technology of the virtual stock exchange in developing new products.
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Well, now we see the results of Andrew Wing’s input… the total implosion of HSX.com:
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The Blogosphere is filled with posts from disgruntled HSX traders (some of [...]
The Hollywood Stock Exchange traders are revolting against the new “social networking” functionalities brought in there by some snake-oil “social media” consultant.
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Previously: #1 – #2
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Just like Greg Mankiw, the BetFair event derivative traders don’t like tax hikes.
A non-scientific poll among British event derivative traders:
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PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new “Premium Charges”… Do BetFair gag the critics, too?
UPDATE: They announce a Q&A.
AskMarkets links its event derivative traders with FaceBook.
AskMarkets
George Tziralis’s post
A brand-new New York Times article about the social networking websites (like FaceBook and LinkedIn) and the age of “ambient awareness”.
SOMEWHAT RELATED APPENDIX: I agree with our good friend Robert Scoble.
Managed Futures is the one category that consistently benefits from volatility AND has positive expectancy, unlike short-sellers.
Insteresting comment from Jason Ruspini.
Jason, the high-end event derivative traders at BetFair (and probably at TradeSports and Betdaq) do benefit from volatility —they would trade thousands of times on one prediction market, back and forth, taking advantage of small price moves. Any related thought about that, with respect to your comment at Potfolio?
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Should prediction market firms use blogs?
BusinessWeek on McKinsey’s global survey:
[...] Only 16% of the companies surveyed said they were investing in blogs, compared to 63% for web services, 28% for peer-to-peer networks, and 19% for social networks. 78% identified web services as the Web 2.0 technology/tool most important their their business. [...]
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