Tag Archives: Nigel Eccles
Inkling Markets and HubDub in TechCrunch
- Inkling Markets infiltrated TechCrunch 6 times.
- HubDub did that a lot more.
Nigel Eccles for President…!!!…
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HubDub’s Nigel Eccles thumbs his nose at Nate Silver.
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HubDub CEO on Max Keiser’s The Oracle (BBC World News)
Cory Doctorow likes Max Keiser’s TV show — I do too.
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Although I don’t agree with them politically, Max Keiser is exceptionally charismatic and funny, and Stacy Herbert is very lively and competent.
Max needs to invite a guest who is as lively and as literate in finance than he is. Otherwise, “The Oracle” will remain his [...]
Are prediction markets on deaths and assassinations SOMETIMES acceptable?
BELOW IS THE CHART OF A SETTLED PREDICTION MARKET:
Will Patrick Swayze die before April 15, 2008?
It was settled on “no”.
HubDub CEO Nigel Eccles thinks that his traders “quickly came to the conclusion that the [early 2008] story [giving him 5 weeks to live] was bogus.” And Nigel Eccles asks, “Is this an example where a [...]
The new Hollywood Stock Exchange website (recently redesigned) sucks as much as an indigestible fruit cake.
HSX-sucks.com — I predict that somebody will soon register this domain name.
Many HSX event derivative traders have complained to me privately about the website redesign: they hate it more than they hate the recent financial bailout. One HSX trader went off on the Prediction Markets group discussion area at LinkedIn. Today, another HSX trader is [...]
HubDub, the prediction exchange that Justin Wolfers didn’t cite in his Freakonomics/WSJ column
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Previously: About Justin Wolfers’s column
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Emile Servan-Schreiber’s Jedi mind tricks didn’t work on Nigel Eccles.
The conversation ended up on a draw.
Robin Hanson was AWOL.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
InTrade-TradeSports CEO John Delaney (a.k.a. “The Sponge”) has siphoned the best concepts premiered by HubDub, and, in particular, has copied WORD FOR WORD some of the HubDub webpages.
Example: The 3 selling points of the InTrade .NET login/registration webpage are similar to those of HubDub.
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InTrade. NET:
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John Delaney = The Sponge
Nigel Eccles = The Leader
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