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Press Contact: Nigel Eccles tel: +44 7515 450 717 email: nigel [at] hubdub.com
How to quote Hubdub
As well as being a fun place for people to make their own predictions, Hubdub also provides real value to anyone looking for numerical forecasts of the way a news story will turn out.
At its core, Hubdub is a prediction market, which means the probabilities given for any of the hundreds of news stories we track are a combination of the thousands of pieces of information brought to bear on each question by our users.
While Hubdub is still a young service building a track record of the accuracy of its forecasts, similar prediction markets (both play and real money) have found a very strong relationship between the forecast chances and reality.
When quoting one of our forecasts, the correct terminology is to describe the percentage as a "percent chance" or "probability", not what a percentage of our users think, as this is not what is measured. For example, "Hubdub is forecasting that Obama has a 67% chance of getting the nomination" is correct, whereas "67% of Hubdub users forecast that Obama will win the nomination" is incorrect. If in doubt please contact us
Some press coverage:
2008 - you read it here first
Hubdub.com, a news prediction site, has been comparing the predictions for 2008 made by assorted media organisations - and awarded the FT’s “crack corp of pundits” top marks....blogs.ft.com
Prizes for prescience
I KNOW this blog is about the year ahead, but it's interesting to look back at predictions as well: who was right about what would happen in 2008? Hubdub, a news-forecasting site, is launching "Pundit Awards" to provide an answer...www.economist.com
Hubdub - the virtual bookie for time-wasting news junkies
Launched earlier this year in the US, a UK version hit the web 10 days ago. And for the desk-bound worker, it already promises to rival Facebook as a time-wasting opportunity...www.theindependent.co.uk
Bright Ideas: Predicting the news can be profitable
Where once informal wagers among friends or a trip to the bookies might have sufficed, now the global age of the internet means that the world is your audience...www.telegraph.co.uk
Place Your Bets: Reuters Joins HubDub's Prediction Market
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....www.fox10tv.com
Fox10tv
A popular prediction website, HubDub , is already predicting the winner for Tuesday's presidential election. The prediction site allows users to make their personal predictions in categories from politics, music, and finances to a large section for sports....www.fox10tv.com
HubDub launches PunditWatch. We don’t do so well (so far)
Prediction markets are being touted as the new way to really engage users. If you can get users to mass around content like a fantasy league, the idea is they will consume more, super-charging traffic...www.techcrunch.com
HubDub: Social News Forcaster With A Touch Of Betting
HubDub.com is a new social news forcaster site with a twist in that it allows users to vote and bet albeit with play money on the outcome of news stories from around the globe...www.socialcmsbuzz.com
Elevator Pitch: Hubdub says it can predict the news
It's news, but not as we know it. Edinburgh-based Hubdub is trying to create a whole different kind of site by predicting how major news stories will turn out....http://blogs.guardian.co.uk
Every Demo 08 startup ranked from 1 to 72
Palm Desert, Calif.--This year's crop of startups presenting their wares at Demo was stronger than last year...www.techconfidential.com
Hubdub: If Digg Were a Stock Market
...is another wisdom of the crowds tool, launching today at DEMO, that takes somewhat of a social bookmarking approach to the presentation of smaller markets...
www.mashable.com
Hubdub weds prediction markets to news
Hubdub is introducing a fresh take on news that leverages the wisdom of crowd, turning news into fodder for prediction markets...
www.zdnet.com
DEMO: Presenters Bet on Predictive Capabilities
The uncertain prediction market will get a new player this week when Hubdub introduces a combination news aggregation and predictive platform...
www.pcworld.com
New Site Has Users Wager on News Stories
New Community Site, Hubdub, Allows Users to Bet Play Money on Outcomes of News Stories...
www.abcnews.com
New Site Has Users Wager on News Stories
Nigel Eccles, a news junkie and former online betting site employee, wanted to try pursuing both interests at once...
www.wired.com
HubDub creates ‘fantasy league’ for news
Hubdub is a startup news forecaster that allows users to track news stories, predict their outcomes and compete with other news junkies...
www.techcrunch.com
TechWeb: The Business Technology Network
Hubdub was hand-picked among hundreds of companies aspiring to launch their new products and services at DEMO 08, which takes place in Palm Desert, CA, ...
www.techweb.com
Demo presenters bet on predictive capabilities
The Hubdub platform creates a market around news events, such as how big will the final tax rebate be once it is signed into law by President Bush... www.infoworld.com
77 New Technologies to Launch at DEMO 08
... CA; www.greenplug.com HealthPricer Interactive, Ltd.; Vancouver, BC; www.healthpricer.com Hubdub, Ltd.; Edinburgh, Scotland; www.hubdub.com Huddle.net; ...
www.sunherald.com
'Hubdub' website: virtual betting on news
People convinced they know whether a rogue trader will be convicted or if pop star Britney Spears will remarry can now put "Hubdub dollars" where their mouths are, in a new online betting game...
www.afp.google.com
Hubdub Launching Predictive News Aggregator
Hubdub, a UK-based startup, is launching at DEMO08 to put a new spin on the traditional news aggregator landscape...
www.somewhatfrank.com
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