Monday, January 28, 2008

Hubdub Lets You Bet on the News

Online everyone can pretend to be an expert. Hubdub hopes to build a business around people's proclivity for predictions.

Hubdub, which is launching today at DEMO, poses questions about sports and news events (eg. Who will win the Best Actor Oscar?) and lets people wager virtual money on the outcome. Those with the most success will have their opinion valued the most on Hubdub.

The service will aggregate news around the questions to build traffic and context. Hubdub's unique focus should help to build community and lots of bickering. Strong filtering will be needed to control the opinionated postings.

Attracting advertisers to sites where opinions rule may be a challenge.

Posted By John Gartner at 07:58 AM
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