Filed in “Real-Time Web“.

UPDATE: I am so impressed, I could lay an egg. A brand-new post appears in Google Reader within seconds. I can’t believe it.

UPDATE 2: Any small editing is immediately fetched by Google Reader (provided it is done on the last 10 posts). Amazing.

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 for years. So, not only are they totally incompetents, but they are also stubborn in their ineptitude. RSS is no MIT-level business —it is spelled “Really Simple Syndication”. If it “simple”, then BetFair should be able to figure it, one day, in the next coming decade —we hope.

For your information, here’s the webpage with the chart widget.

Addendum: InTrade, NewsFutures and HubDub’s chart widgets do go into feeds. They got it. And they have gotten it for years.

A great way to subscribe to Midas Oracle… for those who don’t like using a feed reader like Google Reader or else… Kind of like an e-mail newsletter, if you think of it. I am testing it right now. Let me know if you are aware of better services of this kind.

UPDATE: It is working like a charm. They send you only one e-mail a day with all the posts published that day. Great service.

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The usage of Twitter by Midas Oracle —so far:

- Talking publicly to some people important to us — see the first 2 messages (ranked anti-chronologically).

- Publishing an alternate to our RSS feed — see the last 2 messages.

Anybody sees a better usage of Twitter? George Tziralis tells me that I should “tweet more than just linking to [my] posts”. Do you share his views?

By the way, George Tziralis would like to see a list of the prediction market people using Twitter. I will do that in the future (probably adding the Twitter URLs on my “people” page). In the meantime, you could go to the Midas Oracle page at Twitter, click on “following”, and you will see them. (You will have to be logged in.)

P.S.: I am using Tweetie for Macintosh. (I understand that Tweetie is originally for the iPhone, though.). Is it the best software to use?

P.P.S.: Should the Midas Oracle account at Twitter be a collective account? Should it be used by moi, Jason Ruspini, and others? George Tziralis answered by the negative, but I saw many collective accounts at Twitter. What do you think?

UPDATE: It won’t be a collective account, but I am ready to list some PM people’s Twitter account on the sidebar. Let me know.

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Getting Started with Google Reader

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Reading Feeds with Google Reader

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Sharing Items with Google Reader

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The Midas Oracle Feeds

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For people who want to read all the Midas Oracle blog posts within their feed reader:

Site Feed – Posts Only

http://www.midasoracle.org/feed/

Subscribe to the Midas Oracle site feed via Google Reader

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For people who, additionally, want to read the comments within their feed reader:

Sub-Site Feed – Comments Only

http://www.midasoracle.org/comments/feed/

Subscribe to the Midas Oracle comment feed via Google Reader

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For people who don’t want to read all the Midas Oracle blog posts, but only the selected pieces:

Sub-Site Feed – Best Posts Only

http://www.midasoracle.org/category/all-best-posts-ever/feed/

Subscribe to the Midas Oracle selection feed via Google Reader

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- No need to bookmark websites, anymore. Do subscribe to their feeds, and do use Google Reader.

- Do subscribe to Midas Oracle.

- Happy New Year 2009 to you, your family, and your business cronies.

- As for the young prediction market psychos, they can go fugging themselves.

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1. One way to solve the problem would be to use the “Smart YouTube” plugin. I won’t.
2. If I embed the YouTube video in the “HTML” area, and don’t click on “Visual” before publishing, all is fine —the YouTube video will end up in the feed reader. I’ll do that, now.

Still a mystery.

No word yet from the WordPress authorities.

A tipster tells me that the plugin “Smart YouTube” solves the problem.

I won’t install the plugin before I get reliable info from the WordPress authorities.

UPDATE: If I embed the YouTube video in the “HTML” area, and don’t click on “Visual” before publishing, all is fine —the YouTube video will end up in the feed reader.

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At this moment, I have no idea where the problem comes from. I would blame WordPress 2.7. (All was fine with the previous versions of WordPress.) Let me investigate that technical issue. I will post an update to this post, later on.

UPDATE: Still a mystery. A tipster tells me that the plugin “Smart YouTube” solves the problem.

UPDATE: If I embed the YouTube video in the “HTML” area, and don’t click on “Visual” before publishing, all is fine —the YouTube video will end up in the feed reader.

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