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Twitter into LinkedIn: The new plague

Those who feed their LinkedIn profile page with their Twitter account are polluting LinkedIn. Extremely annoying.

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Soshable = social media blog

“People soshalize. They don’t care how it’s spelled. They just do it.” Excellent.

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BetFair USA in Silicon Valley is building a social betting website.

CNN Money: The plan is to build a technical team that can combine that television property with a brawnier website, which can stream live horse races to viewers and add all the social media bells and whistles, including Twitter feeds, … Continue reading

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The new InTrade has integrated HubDub’s social innovations.

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Seesmic Desktop helps us manage the monitoring of prediction market chattering over social media.

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James Surowiecki’s Wisdom Of Crowds at TED 2008

About the rise of social media since 2005…

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NewsFutures uses Google Friend Connect to power its community.

NewsFutures Friends Google Friend Connect -

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The HSX bozos, who briefly experimented with a website “redesign”, have now reverted to their original platform.

Towards the end of October, I chronicled, in very harsh words, the so-called “redesign” of the Hollywood Stock Exchange website. I wrote that the HSX executives who gave the green light to that “redesign” are a bunch of usability bozos, … Continue reading

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At inception, I created an “Internet usability” category, and, since, I have published many Jakob Nielsen stories. Many wondered why I would bother. Now, the Midas Oracle readers can understand why.

These traders are talking down the newly redesigned Hollywood Stock Exchange website. – - [They guy above has misspelled, two times. He meant: "unusable".] – - Previously: #1 – #2 – #3 – #4 – UPDATE: Traders talk on Twitter … Continue reading

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Meet Andrew Wing, the recently appointed CEO of Cantor Entertainment, who (along with Alex Costakis) has lead to the complete and definitive destruction of the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

Andrew Wing – 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. – Well, now we see the results … Continue reading

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