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Chris Pirillo on HubDub’s prediction markets
Chris Pirillo on HubDub’s prediction markets
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Where do you get most of your national and international news?
“From the Internet” … is in red:
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New Yahoo! News election dashboard
Cross-posted on Oddhead Blog.
The Yahoo! News Political Dashboard has re-launched for the general election stretch run of the 2008 US Presidential election.
From the main map you can see the status of the election in every state according to either polls or Intrade prediction market odds. Hover your mouse over a state to see current numbers [...]
Why InTrade CEO John Delaney, TradeSports acting CEO John Delaney, BetFair CEO David Yu, HubDub CEO Nigel Eccles and NewsFutures CEO Emile Servan-Schreiber should supplicate me to develop my prediction market journalism project
- 200 web visitors (coming from Google) reached my John Edwards post, published yesterday afternoon (ET).
- 10% of them followed my links to the 2 HubDub prediction markets on John Edwards.
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Remember that those web stats count only the web visitors, not the feed subscribers —who are more numerous, and whom I focus more on.
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TAKEAWAY: A [...]
TV News Shows = Entertainment
The awful French TV program on sports betting (where BetFair’s Mark Davies croaked in French) reminded me of what Robert Scoble said about TV news shows.
They do not intend to educate you..
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Robert Scoble:
Last week I was on CNBC twice. Once on “Fast Money” and once on Donny Deutsch’s “The Big Idea.”
The Fast Money segment has [...]
HubDub limitations
HubDub is supposed to be a combo: a prediction exchange plus a news aggregator. But are the news sorted out pertinently?
Out of the 13 news stories listed under the prediction market on the CFTC licensing event markets, not a single one … NOT A SINGLE ONE… covers that issue. They are general news about futures [...]
Why Midas Oracle (and not TV news shows or print newspapers) will dominate the future.
Henry Blodget:
We still occasionally encounter people who argue that physical newspapers and TV news shows have a vital roll to play in the dissemination of news. These folks usually work for physical newspapers and TV networks, of course. [...]
Ha! ha! ha!
48% said their primary source of news is the Internet (up 20% from [...]
HubDub = Prediction Market Charts legended with News Markers
To get any legended chart, click on the “history” link, just below the small chart.
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What will be the principal reason given for the British Airways crash at Heathrow?
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