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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, … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce
Tagged Alex Costakis, Andrew Wing, betting markets, Cantor Fitzgerald, event derivative markets, event derivative traders, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX, Internet Marketing, marketing, movies, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, social media, social networking, traders, unusable
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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 … Continue reading
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. – - [They guy above has misspelled, two times. He meant: "unusable".] – - Previously: #1 – #2 – #3 – #4 – UPDATE: Traders talk on Twitter … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Usability
Tagged Alex Costakis, Andrew Wing, betting markets, Cantor Fitzgerald, event derivative markets, event derivative traders, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX, Internet Marketing, marketing, movies, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, social media, social networking, traders, unusable
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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 – 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. – Well, now we see the results … Continue reading
Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Usability
Tagged Alex Costakis, Andrew Wing, betting markets, Cantor Fitzgerald, event derivative markets, event derivative traders, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX, Internet Marketing, marketing, movies, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, social media, social networking, traders
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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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Posted in Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Usability
Tagged Alex Costakis, betting markets, Cantor Fitzgerald, event derivative markets, event derivative traders, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX, Internet Marketing, marketing, movies, play-money prediction markets, prediction markets, social media, social networking, traders
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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: – PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new “Premium Charges”… Do BetFair gag the critics, too? UPDATE: They announce a Q&A.
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Transaction Costs
Tagged bet exchanges, BetFair, BetFair charges, BetFair costs, BetFair fees, betting exchanges, betting markets, Ethics, event derivative exchanges, event derivative markets, event derivative traders, poll, prediction exchanges, prediction market traders, prediction markets, Premium Charges, The Sporting Exchange, transaction charges, transaction costs, transaction fees
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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.
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Software, The Internet
Tagged ambient awareness, Ask Markets, AskMarkets, betting markets, event derivative markets, event derivative traders, event derivatives, FaceBook, George Tziralis, Internet Marketing, LinkedIn, marketing, New York Times, prediction market traders, prediction markets, Robert Scoble, social networking, traders
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged content management system, David Perry, event derivative traders, Hollywood Stock Exchange, HTML, HTML editor, identified web services, media people, prediction markets, Social Networks, technology/tool, Tennessee, web publishing, web publishing tool, web publishing tools, Web services
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