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Re: Sad News

David — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:20:01 -0000

Well if the Hubdubbing folks don't mind me detouring on their grave (so to speak), I whipped together a similar site:

http://www.headlineprophet.com

I "opened' it last weekend and am sure it does not reach the level of sophistication that this site probably had going for it. But I'm committed to working on it.

Sad, I would have loved to know this site! :P

- Dave

Re: Sad News

Manoj Ranaweera — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:56:11 -0000

Nigel

Sorry to hear another webmission08 company bite the dust. Wishing your new startup will achieve similar success to skimlinks. Hope you can make it our reunion on the 3rd June on the back of Tech Mission London 2010. More info at http://www.techcelerate.org...

Regards
Manoj
CEO - http://edocr.com

Re: Sad News

predictiontrack — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:13:55 -0000

I have a site that isn't interactive but rather an aggregator of predictions and tracker of many of them. Please check it out.

Re: Sad News

Chuck — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:12:26 -0000

Chuck here, guess I'm a guest now.

I just wanted to let you all know that I really thought hubdub.com was a wonderful thing and that I will miss it dearly. Even with the amount of complaining that I did.

Goodbye

Chuck

Re: Sad News

Jeff M — Sun, 02 May 2010 10:33:58 -0000

:( Thanks for all your time and effort into this site. I have really enjoyed it and would tell my friends about it all the time. I had so much fun many times. I did notice I liked the sports aspect most often. I will check out your new site, but I doubt I will get into it. Good luck on your new project. I always wondered where this would go and when it would be made commerical and not beta. I think the idea of selling it is a great one. I think there are ways to make money of this website. Ahhhh my poor hubdub. I love you! Thanks for all you did and the fun you gave us!

Re: Sad News

Mark — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:45:09 -0000

If you don't mind me asking how much was the server cost monthly? If the admins wasn't paid, it would be alot cheaper to keep open. I understand you was a business trying to make money. If somebody else just wanted to break even, then server cost and maintence would be the only cost..correct?

Re: Sad News

GregO — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:46:55 -0000

it finally happened

Re: Sad News

valornhonor — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:22:47 -0000

I thought this day would arrive, but still sad that it has, I'd hoped to have closure on 500 uniquely created questions, and I came close but didn't quite make it. It's been a delight and I wish you Nigel, Leslie and the entire team many wonderful successes in your future, if I can ever be a reference for you, I'd be honored.

Adam Johnson aka Valornhonor on HD

Re: Sad News

meanderingsearcher — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:21:08 -0000

comments dont appear to be working on hubdub so heres my final adieas
is busy snickering at the history of voided question
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Mar...
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Mar...
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Mar...
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Mar...
http://www.hubdub.com/m3052...
posted 53 mins ago on Who will least miss hubdub when its gone?

oh, and to jersjusttrolling, my keyboard is still stained with chicken poop
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Mar...
posted 1 hour ago on Who will least miss hubdub when its gone?

no more
"Spitzer"- literally "screwed"
no more
"fistinction"- it's gonna be my way or it's "to the moon Alice, to the moon"
no more
"pics4ded"- "i'm gonna take my toys and go home"
no more protests http://www.hubdub.com/e/Mar...
no more
Duckie" betting on drunken midgets
no more
"cognotitus" the intention losing of all H$ for esoteric and/or no apparent reason ( my favorite)
no more
spanking and/or spanking machines
no more warring factions
The Anti-Death Pool Brigade
The Resigned-to-Resignation Gang
The Hubdub Mutual Admiration Society
The Free Speech Protectorate
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Mar...

i, for one, will miss hubdub
posted 1 hour ago on Who will least miss hubdub when its gone?

Re: Sad News

Nigel Eccles — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:17:47 -0000

We have in fact got the direct cost down to a similar level to what you mention but you are overly optimistic about ad revenues. Currently Hubdub brings in less than $200 per month and that number is declining. Making a step change improvement to that would require a lot of time and resource which we just don't have.

Re: Sad News

Joe — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:08:58 -0000

It really is kinda dumb to close down a site such as hubdub.
Make it a community based site, get rid of the paid personnel, and if you must: move to a budget hosting company. You probably could get away with spending at most $1k us a month of the site and still turn in a profit with adverts. I can tell you for sure you can make a decent chunk of change off of it. Have you ever thought of selling the website to another party? Maybe they can find a better idea for it than just closing shop.

Just because you now have a platform that is bringing in big bucks and now that you have lost track of things that can bring about people to pay big bucks for your products, don't get rid of what it started with and what brought those people in to begin with.

Re: Sad News

curtis — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:17:08 -0000

Even though i probably used it for a couple of months and spent most of that time as a newbie, the memories will stay forever!

Re: Sad News

Nigel Eccles — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:57:41 -0000

We have had volunteers however to be honest, without marketing and support, traffic to the site has been in long term decline so if we don't do this now we will have to do it in 6 months time. Also, Fanduel and Hubdub share a common platform and there is significant amount of development work required in separating them.

Re: Sad News

JBBdude — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:53:55 -0000

I had no idea that CatEds were paid. Why not try to solicit volunteers? I'd imagine that some of the more passionate members would be up for the job.

Re: Sad News

Nigel Eccles — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:46:33 -0000

Actually, each of the Hubdub categories has a paid category editor who manages that category. Without those editors the site would quickly become chaos. So there are not insignificant running costs. Unfortunately while Hubdub is a product we have all put countless hours into building and nurturing, we are still a business on a very limited budget.

Re: Sad News

JBBdude — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:17:12 -0000

Why? If you're not putting massive work into it now, then what's the reason to not simply leave it running? Surely the hosting costs can't be that absurd.

This is boneheaded to me, to say the least. I enjoy being able to get quick croudsourced odds on a news story, and I enjoy being able to participate in a massive betting ecosystem for current events.

Unlike others, I don't bid farewell when one of my favorite startups makes a 180 and abandons their original products. AppJet, Shuffletime, Hubdub, Formspring/Formstack... I can appreciate using a technology you've developed in new ways, but destroying the original ones?

I don't like sports, so you will never get me on Fanduel. Ever. I'm sorry that this must be goodbye. But you're the ones calling these boneheaded shots.

Re: Sad News

keith — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:50:49 -0000

i'm cashing in and doing a runner ....bye bye .............

Re: Sad News

melvincarvalho — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:04:25 -0000

Sad news indeed!

Hubdub has been an awesome project, but I can well understand the effort involved with keeping a great concept going.

It's been an amazing journey, I hope I can hold on to my top 30 position on the leaderboard before the end comes, I want to thank you for all the fun and excitement this site has given me, and wish you guys the best for the future.

Best of luck with Fandeul!

If you did decide to go the open source route, I'd be happy to donate some resource to helping out ...

Re: Sad News

neopugg — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:17:47 -0000

How about making the website open source and giving it to the community?

Re: Hubdub Adds News Forecasts to The Huffington Post

robby122 — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:36:53 -0000

Очень нужное, а главное полезное изменение, пользуюсь не первый месяц.

Re: Brand New Fantasy Sports Game - brought to you by the Hubdub Team!

richymartin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:38:31 -0000

Its great that you can play with just $5 starting. I think you will see a lot of activity at this price. Thanks

Re: Hubdub up for Best Design - get voting

michele0101 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:19:05 -0000

Re: Forget Mock Drafts! What are Prediction Markets saying on the eve of the NFL Draft?

NFL Picks — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:57:14 -0000

You did pretty darn well with those predictions!

Re: Featured on National TV!

Kate — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:19:20 -0000

Hey Lesley - well done! Thats great news. We've just blogged about it: http://startupcafe.co.uk/20...

Re: Living With Demons: How Much Did Rosemarie Fritzl Know?

Reader — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:07:03 -0000

Here is a comment that I would like to make
about Josef Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie ...

Clearly that “person” (and one has to stretch the
definition of the word “person” in order to apply
it to that creature) known to the world as Josef
Fritzl was / is the DEVIL-INCARNATE ---- AND
he should burn in h*ll for all of eternity for his evil.

In addition, it also needs to be stated that no person
on earth should allow themselves be fooled for
even one moment by the lies of “I didn’t know”
that are currently being claimed by that lying
and equally evil wife of this evil DEVIL!!!

That vile, evil, perverted, disgusting, devil
b**tch of a wife of that MONSTER KNEW!!

SHE KNEW!!! SHE KNEW!!! SHE KNEW!!!

She KNEW the whole time (or at least had
literally no excuse whatsoever to have not
at least ‘suspected’ something was amiss!!!)

She is a LIAR and she must think the entire world is
as perverted as both she and her husband are and
that by coming up with that ridiculous and flimsy
excuse that she can then convince the rest of
the world to then respond to her own complicity
the same way she chose to respond to that of
her husband’s evil -- by 'turning a blind eye'.

BOTH of them are utter DEVILS and one
cannot help but to hope that they both burn
in h*ll for all of eternity for their evil acts!!!!

She expects anyone on this planet who has even
half-a-brain-stem to believe for even one fraction
of a moment that she didn't know anything at all?!?!

Give me a break!!!

For crying out loud--unless this woman is Helen
Keller --she has NO EXCUSE at all to not have
known (or at least ’suspected’) something strange
and conspiratorial was going on regarding her
daughter’s whereabouts and situation and that the
husband’s stories were just far too incredulous
and absolutely made no sense in the least bit!!!

After all -- think about it -- daughter runs away as a
very young teen; daughter mysteriously disappears
at the age of 18 (an age when she can both make
her own decisions and choose to get away from
her father and even bring charges against him); the
(convicted-rapist/arsonist) father gets a letter from
daughter 1 month after her disappearance which
ridiculously claims she has joined a cult and does
not want to have any contact with the family – yet
amazingly then later chooses (for 3 years in a row)
to simply leave 3 of her newborn babies on the
doorstep of very home that she tried to run away
from at least 2 X's before and is "allegedly thought"
to have finally left in order to join some sort of
“phantom” cult (a "cult" which, unlike every other
cult, just somehow, seemingly has no desire to try
to indoctrinate the youth from birth, but rather it
simply allows it's members to select a home --one
which in fact, is both not a part of the cult AND is
the very home from which the member ran in order
to join the cult ---to raise their babies and kids of
the cult members) --ALL THE WHILE – the father
forbids ANYONE to ever for ANY REASON dare to
go ANYWHERE NEAR the mysterious basement
(which he always keeps locked, disappears to for
hours and days on end; has ‘unseen’ bathroom
equipment installed; and has a cement-barricaded
door installed which both has a security-code and
which was so complicated it needed inspection
by local government authorities in order to install).

Just 2 years before the “discovery” of what this
monster (and his devil wife via her complicity of
silence) did to their poor child – another young girl,
and former kidnap victim, was also found in Austria.

It was discovered that the other young kidnap /
rape victim had disappeared 8 years earlier and
had been held in a basement / dungeon where
she had been repeatedly raped the entire time
by the individual who had also kidnapped her.

Now ---- even if the public was expected to
simply throw all common sense to the wind
and accept this monster’s devil-wife’s excuse
that she “didn’t know”, say, in the beginning …
it still stands to reason that after hearing about
the case of the other young girl 2 years earlier
----- this creep’s equally creepy wife would
have said something to herself like, say …

”””Hmmm … a young girl who disappeared 8 years
ago, out of no where, has been discovered
to have been held in a basement the entire
time and while there she was repeatedly
raped by the person who trapped her there.

Hmmm … my daughter, who repeatedly tried
to run away from my convicted-rapist husband
as a child has also mysteriously disappeared
– and – my convicted-rapist husband is
always coming across both ‘letters’ and
‘grandchildren’ that were allegedly left
by my daughter (who has vanished
without a trace) -- and – meanwhile
my convicted-rapist husband also
has a mysterious basement that he
keeps under lock and key and never
allows anyone to come near -- ever.

Hmmm … now I cannot help but to wonder
if that convicted-rapist husband I married
just may have had something to do with
the disappearance of our daughter – and
-- the appearance of all these grandkids
and letters – and I also can’t help but to
wonder if that mystery-basement room
of his would, in some way / in any way,
be connected somehow to our child’s
disappearance and / or the mysterious
appearance of all of these grandchildren.”””

Yes – one would think that – even if this woman
could have claimed ‘ignorance’ earlier – (a lie
which, again, no one with any common sense
should ever consider buying into) – once the
discovery was made of a similar situation 2
years earlier – she then had NO excuse to not
have at least been suspicious of something
about her convicted-rapist husband and his
ever-so-mysterious hidden basement room.

That vicious devil simply did not care at all about
her own daughter – or -- she simply cared more
about her own creature-comforts and keeping up
with her middle-class appearances than she did
about the torture being done to her own child.

THAT POOR GIRL’S VILE, DISGUSTING
PERVERTED LYING B*TCH OF A MOTHER
KNEW FULL WELL WHAT WAS GOING ON
-- SHE KNEW-- SHE KNEW-- SHE KNEW!!!

THAT WIFE IS A B*TCH, A DEVIL AND A
VILE PERVERT AND ONE CANNOT HELP
BUT TO TRULY HOPE THAT--- SINCE SHE
OBVIOUSLY FELT SOME STRANGE NEED
TO BE SO VERY LOYAL TO THAT DEVIL,
OF A PERVERTED CONVICTED-RAPIST
AND ARSONIST FREAK OF A HUSBAND
OF HERS AND TO CHOOSE TO STAND BY
HIS SIDE FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY
ALL THE WHILE THAT HE IMPRISONED
AND ALSO SEXUALLY AND PHYSICALLY
AND MENTALLY TORTURED THEIR CHILD
--- SHE WILL CONTINUE TO REMAIN BY
HIS SIDE AS THEY BOTH BURN IN H*LL
TOGETHER FOR ALL OF ETERNITY!!

She is clearly as much of a
pervert and devil as is he!!

Would anyone even be remotely surprised
if further investigation later revealed that
‘Rosemarie Fritzl’ (who is actually trying to
get the world to see her as a co-victim of
her daughter’s horrific nightmare of a life)
was actually just another ‘Rosemary West’
(a woman whose husband also originally –
and falsely – claimed that she had nothing
to do with his unbelievably evil sex crimes)?

What kind of a woman, after all, chooses to marry
(or remained married to) a man who had already
committed and also been convicted of previously
raping another woman and has shown absolutely
no remorse about any of it whatsoever in the least.

SHE KNEW!!! SHE KNEW!!! SHE KNEW!!!