Tag Archives: Web visitors

Midas Oracle is the #1 blog on prediction markets.

Some web stats for the month of October 2008: – about 950 daily feed subscribers – [by comparison, BetFair Predicts has only 5 feed subscribers according to Google Reader] – 29,334 visits – 49,424 pageviews Stats for all the 3 … Continue reading

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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. – - Remember that those web stats count … Continue reading

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Marginal Revolution vs. Freakonomics vs. Overcoming Bias vs. Midas Oracle

Here are the stats about the feed subscribers to these blogs who use either Google Reader or iGoogle. – To interpret these data, you should know that: The web visitors are not counted. The PC-based feed subscribers are not counted. … Continue reading

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WORDPRESS: In favor of self pings

Serra Dinho: No one has been able to tell me what the purpose is behind WordPress sending pings and trackbacks to itself if you link to an article located in your archive. It’s a great feature. Google (and the other … Continue reading

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The Economist should set up The Open Institute of Prediction Markets.

Here’s Chris Masse‘ s suggestion to The Economist regarding the Project Red Stripe. — ABOUT THE ECONOMIST: The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication owned by “The Economist Newspaper Ltd” and edited in London, UK. It has … 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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