I like a wager, perhaps unsurprisingly as in a former life one of my jobs included working for a large horse racing outfit. File under not a lot of people know that. Not a lot of people know how the news is going to play out in the technology sector either, but that doesn’t stop them thinking that they do. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could bet on such things, just for fun of course? A bit like popping down the bookies to bet on who would be the Xmas number one in the pop charts in the days before the X-Factor ruined all that.
Over the weekend, in-between celebrating my 13th wedding anniversary by not eating a meal that was so bad the restaurant agreed we should not pay anything towards the bill and falling out of a tree while rescuing a kitten and breaking a rib in the process, I discovered Hubdub. This brilliantly addictive service manages to bring together like-minded news junkies with the will to bet pretend money on the outcome of breaking technology news stories.