Tag Archives: Web readers

Prediction markets = “the future of journalism” —said, from day one, Emile Servan-Schreiber of NewsFutures. Emile, if you have balls, let’s do it —all together.

My yesterday’s post about the Obama–Clinton prediction markets was the most popular Midas Oracle story of that Monday. Hummmm… No idea why… I was not helped by Google Search or by an external blogger. Sounds like our Midas Oracle web … Continue reading

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XM-Sirius merger — REDUX

As you know from reading this group blog yesterday, InTrade-TradeSports created a new set of prediction markets about the XM-Sirius merger. I looked into the web stats this morning, and the number of web readers [*] who clicked thru the … Continue reading

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Tom W. Bell blogs less… and wishes visitors turn into subscribers.

Law professor Tom W. Bell is right: – Blog subscribers who read inside a feed reader don’t mind anymore about publication frequency. Their (PC-based or Web-based) feed reader (which is a piece of software that downloads the feeds) has freed … Continue reading

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Ouch! – Finding from a Web usability expert (Jakob Nielsen): 50% of Web readers don’t scroll down the webpage.

From today’s New York Times: Studies by Mr. Nielsen’s company, the Nielsen Norman Group, an Internet design firm in Fremont, Calif., show that only 50 percent of Web visitors scroll down the screen to see what lies below the visible … Continue reading

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