My analysis was spot on —once again:

Today, I see that those smart a**es have reverted to the original Hollywood Stock Exchange website —as we knew it.

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- 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 his/her competitors?

- Do trading induce solidarity, paradoxally?

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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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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 them have been on HSX for 10 years):

• “Dear HSX: The redesign sucks”
• The Hollywood Stock Exchange is being “squandered by the owners who seem to have no idea what to do with a concept like this, other than to let it sit without much improvement and let it die a slow death through neglect.”
• “The Death of HSX”
• The crash of the Exchange
• HSX: EMAIL to HSX From Me, an MBA

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Previously: #1 – #2 – #3

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Previously: #1 – #2

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“We use them ["them" = the enterprise prediction markets] as another point in the decision-making process, alongside asking experts and other business leaders,” said Christina LaComb, a computer scientist in the R&D lab at GE.

OK. You’re using enterprise prediction markets; you’ve gotten your name in the newspapers; you’re “cool”.

And our good friend David Perry‘s gotten your money.

But do your event derivative traders have the same access as you do to “experts” and other “business leaders”?

Or do you leave them in the dark? In that case, your enterprise prediction markets would be clueless, useless, and worthless.

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PREVIOUSLY: BetFair impose new “Premium Charges”… Do BetFair gag the critics, too?

UPDATE: They announce a Q&A.

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.

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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