[thelist] scrolling news tickers

[Keni]

I watch with amusement at the developments of this thread, as only the other
day I was asked to do a ticker by a client.

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Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] scrolling news tickers


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> Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers
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> The only place for them is if the data they're displaying *genuinely*
> updates on a moment by moment basis (and is short too, so each
> datum fits in a single ticker-width), and you don't want/expect users
> to hit refresh every few seconds.
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> Funnily enough, live shareprices are about the only thing which falls into
> this category (Auctions too, maybe) ie the data which the ticker interface
> was developed for.
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> Funny that.
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> Cheers
> Martin
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> What I want to know is is there a good reason to use a ticker? If you go
to
> a site with a ticker, do you bother to read through all of the items and
> actually *use* it? Are there successful and useable tickers out there?
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> Any thoughts supporting a pro-ticker mindset would be appreciated.
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