Launched - Bet On The News At HubDub
Taking Digg a step further comes Hubdub, which as the site claims is all about letting a user actively participate in the day’s news, following today’s events, predicting their outcomes and competing with other users to find out who the real news junkies are!
“Hubdub makes a person more of a participant than a consumer. It accents what people are discussing and gets them more involved in the news,” Hubdub co-founder Nigel Eccles told AFP.
Putting simply, Hubdub creates an online parlor for playful betting on the news. Membership at Hubdub is free, with users receiving upon sign-up 1,000 “Hubdub dollars” for betting on how major stories in the news will play out.
Members post questions based on topics in the news, adding links to recent stories. Similar to Digg, member votes for news stories at Hubdub dictate story rankings, with popular stories getting top viewing positions. Here’s where the similarity ends however - Hubdub lets members put play money and real reputations at risk by betting on the answers to questions.
Bets being taken include whether Hugo Chavez would still be president of Venezuela by year’s end; where a falling satellite will hit on Earth, and when Osama bin Laden will be found.
A very fascinating snippet, is that their logo is made up of different newspapers from around the world.
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