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BetFair’s chart widgets don’t go into feeds.

Why the fuck would bloggers embed BetFair’s chart widgets if their blog readers can’t see these charts when using feed readers (like Google Reader)? Once again, we can see plainly the incompetence of the BetFair team when it comes to … Continue reading

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At BetFair Predicts, they are technologically retarded.

- BetFair Predicts is a blog that aims at the Americans. In my view, it’s a big failure (once again). BetFair listened to some snake-oil “social media” consultant. As an experienced and successful webmaster, I can tell you there are … Continue reading

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How BetFair screw up the “Next Mayor Of London” embeddable, enriched, compound chart widget —BIG TIME

- PUT YOUR MOUSE CURSOR ON ONE OF THE WHITE DOTS PRESENT ON THE CHART, AND SPOT THE POP-UP MESSAGE. – IF YOU’RE READING THIS FROM WITHIN YOUR FEED READER, GO TO THE BLOG POST, ON THE MIDAS ORACLE WEBSITE, … Continue reading

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The definitive proof that it’s presently impossible to practice prediction market journalism with BetFair.

- Unlike InTrade and NewsFutures, BetFair does not deliver any chart after that the prediction market has expired —leaving the blog post that linked to it totally blank (in a digital world where old content is King, and where Google … Continue reading

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