Hubdub Buzz This Week
Place your Bets: Reuters Joins Hubdub’s Prediction Market (Sept 19th 2008)
International news service Reuters has set up shop on HubDub, a prediction market on topics ranging from politics to technology. The new partner section of the site will feature standard HubDub surveys, as well as a selection of top Reuters stories and widgets. You can access the Reuters portal here. More…
Hubdub Signs Partner Deals with Reuters (Sept 19th 2008)
Hubdub, the UK-based news prediction market aimed exclusively at a US audience, has today won a partnership deal with Reuters. Hubdub allows users to trade predictions with virtual money on the outcomes of breaking news stories and future events. It will run a new, dedicated Reuters section within the site. Reuters will generate questions for users to trade on based on the latest breaking news, such as the 2008 presidential election. The deal makes a lot of sense - prior to this Reuters-sourced questions were already among the most popular on Hubdub. More…
Reuters Joins Hubdub’s Prediction Market (Sept19th 2008)
International news service Reuters has set up shop on HubDub, a prediction market on topics ranging from politics to technology. The new partner section of the site will feature standard HubDub surveys, as well as a selection of top Reuters stories and widgets. You can access the Reuters portal here. More…
Hubdub Partners with Reuters for News Predictions (Sept 19th 2008)
Hubdub runs a news prediction game site where users can place bets with virtual money on how certain news stories will turn out. Based on current betting, for instance, people believe that Monday’s Gallup presidential poll will favor Barack Obama. Now the Scottish company is announcing that Reuters will partner with it to integrate Reuters’ news reports into Hubdub’s prediction site. Reuters will also put Hubdub widgets on its own site, helping Hubdub get access to wider distribution. More…
Prediction News Marketplace Partners with Reuters (Sept 19th 2008)
London-based Hubdub is a predictive marketplace for news. The basic idea is that Hubdub posts questions, you predict which answer will win and then if you are correct, you receive credits that help you reach the leaderboard. Hubdub launched at DEMO earlier this year and SomewhatFrank and TechnicallySpeaking have good overviews of how the service works. Hubdub CEO Nigel Eccles noted that over 2 million “Hubdub dollars” are traded daily within the network. More…
Reuters Links up with Hubdub (Sept 19th 2008)
Reuters has become the first news organisation to build a presence on news prediction web startup Hubdub. Hubdub, which is based in Edinburgh but has a mainly US audience, lets users make predictions and bet with virtual money on the outcome of news events.
Previously its only partnership with a news organisation was the Huffington Post, which syndicates some Hubdub content on its own site.
The Reuters section within Hubdub will allow Reuters editors to generate questions, ranging from the credit crunch to the 2008 US presidential election. More…
Prediction Markets - Different Value to Different Audiences (Sept 21st 2008)
In his Mercury’s Blog, Jed Christiansen discusses the value of public versus private prediction markets, and analysises what the Reuters Deal means for Hubdub and prediction markets as a whole.
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