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Vote Hubdub!

Posted by Jimmy Leach
  • Friday, 28 November 2008 at 04:43 pm
Just a quick mention for our partners in gambling Hubdub, who are up for a well deserved award this weekend

We launched a partnership in the middle of last month with Hubdub - it's a simple proposition: you just bet on the outcome of news stories. How much are the All Blacks going to cuff England by this weekend? Will house prices continue to fall to the end of the year? What will be the top-selling toy this Christmas?

Within boundaries of taste, you can bet your fake money on whatever you like. Get on there and have a play (let us know who you are and we'll make you a part of our Hubdub gang as well. It's pretty addictive and, as I say, its fake money, so you'll eat if you lose.

Anyhow, the excellent Hubdub people are up for an award and the voting has started. Get in there and get voting (you can vote once a day). You'll find them in the social news category.

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Hubdub and those house prices
[info]colinb wrote:
Saturday, 29 November 2008 at 07:36 am (UTC)
Hubdub sounds a bit of fun, a chance to put one's (fake) money where one's mouth is. This is being said by someone who back in 2002 or thereabouts was one of only 7 people in the country who believed Saddam Hussein did NOT have WMD. OK, maybe I exaggerate. Maybe there were 9 or 10 of us, branded as hopelessly naive at the time.

Beware, by the way, of short-term house price forecasting. There could be a statistical trap for the unwary. The number(aka volume)of house sales has fallen off sharply, as any estate agent will tell you. Can anyone guess what I'm driving at?
[info]lesleyeccles wrote:
Tuesday, 2 December 2008 at 11:45 am (UTC)
The good people over at Mashable who are running the Open Web Awards where Hubdub is up for Best Social News Site (http://mashable.com/openwebawards/home/) have now closed this 2nd round of voting, but are opening the 3rd round tomorrow.

Should Hubdub be lucky enough to make it to the final 3, then we'd love it if you'd all vote for us once again!

Phew, it's quite a marathon!
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