Quoted: Yesterday, he sent me a link to their new election dashboard service which I have bookmarked and will now visit everyday until the election.
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Hub Dub has it at 70% Obama, 30% McCain and that also has not moved much in the past three months.
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So why is it that the polls are tight and tightening and the markets are not? And are markets better predictors of news than polls? I suspect the answer to that is yes.

Marc nails it again.

Quoted: Personally, I'll take the third position -- I'll assert that market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure.

Quoted: Social network ad spending will account for 2.2% of the $15.9 billion spent on US online advertising in 2006 and 4.7% of the estimated $18.3 billion spent in 2007, according to eMarketer. By 2010, it will account for 8.5% of the estimated $25.2 billion US online advertising market.

Quoted: I'm afraid to say that consumer RSS Readers are rapidly becoming commodities and will soon be next to worthless - the real business is white label and enterprise solutions. So Newsgator for example is well positioned. And Bloglines and Rojo both got out while the going was still good, via acquisitions. Although it must be said that niche RSS Readers will still have their place - for example FeedDemon (owned by Newsgator) will continue to get an adequate number of subscriptions.