Betting on Hubdub technology
By Davey Winder in Editorial
I like a wager, perhaps unsurprisingly as in a former life one of my jobs included working for a large horse racing outfit. File under not a lot of people know that. Not a lot of people know how the news is going to play out in the technology sector either, but that doesn’t stop them thinking that they do. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could bet on such things, just for fun of course? A bit like popping down the bookies to bet on who would be the Xmas number one in the pop charts in the days before the X-Factor ruined all that.
Over the weekend, in-between celebrating my 13th wedding anniversary by not eating a meal that was so bad the restaurant agreed we should not pay anything towards the bill and falling out of a tree while rescuing a kitten and breaking a rib in the process, I discovered Hubdub. This brilliantly addictive service manages to bring together like-minded news junkies with the will to bet pretend money on the outcome of breaking technology news stories.
You sign up, you get 1000 Hudub Dollars to play with, and you start betting. Head over to the technology section and you can pit your obviously vastly superior wits against the assorted plebs to predict the outcome of such news inspired questions as:
- Will Mark Zuckerberg still be CEO of Facebook by end of 2008? (currently 84% say yes)
- What will happen to Scrabulous? (53% reckon it will be sold to Electronic Arts)
- How many lay offs will Yahoo! announce by end of January? (38% reckon around 10%)
- Will Google’s fourth quarter revenue exceed $4.5bn? (66% say yes)
- What will be the Firefox web brower’s market share percentage by the end of March? (26% think between 18.50 and 18.99%)
I love this ‘think you know better’ mentality thing, but then I would being a journalist, blogger, consultant and ego-maniac. Mind you, even I wouldn’t like to bet on Hubdub not have being copied and done bigger and better by this time next year
Rated: 100% (4 votes)
Loading ...Comment by - March 8, 2009 on 6:36 pm
Hubdub has been OK for me. Baseball Handicappers
Comment by - October 15, 2009 on 11:06 am
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Comment by - October 16, 2009 on 7:39 am
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