All Blog Posts Tagged 'hubdub' (4)

Mashable have just announced the finalists for the 2nd Open Web Awards and Hubdub is in the top three social news sites - beating the mighty Digg!! To win we need as many votes as possible, every day, until Dec 14th. Help us and the Scottish tech scene out by voting on the widget here: http://blog.hubdub.com/2008/12/03/hubdub-makes-the-mashable-open-web-awards-finals/ Thank you! Continue

All too often I hear about ideas where the success of the project lies in having a large number of users – the usual “and then with all these users it works amazingly like this and that and opens up the potential for so and so”. This is the point where in mid-conversation I frown; I’m not listening to the potential, I’m listening to the mechanisms that get it to the point of providing this potential. This is really a simple thing: a huge following of people can pretty much make an… Continue

It looks like Hubdub is proving to be quite a challenge to Digg.com, last year’s winner of Mashable’s Open Web Awards for Best Social News site. According to Mashable’s blog post today: In the week since kicking off the voting round of The Open Web Awards, there have been nea… Continue

Umm, crowdsourcing betting prediction site Hubdub is rolling out a UK version. You can get a preview at http://www2.hubdub.com/ Hubdub gives you tons of entertaining ways to track news stories and become more informed than ever before. * Create your own questions and find out what the community forecasts will happen * Cash in predictions before they are over if you change your mind to make gains faster * See accurate forecasts that emerge from the wisdom o… Continue